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Day: May 11, 2016

  • Seven days, three speeches: one week in the life of having a black president

    Seven days, three speeches: one week in the life of having a black president The Guardian 2016-05-09 Steven W. Thrasher After seven years, Barack Obama is in his last months in the White House. When he leaves, nothing will be the same. For black people, nothing will be resolved Like so many people I have…

  • Remarks by the President at Howard University Commencement Ceremony

    Remarks by the President at Howard University Commencement Ceremony The White House Washington, D.C. 2016-05-07 Office of the Press Secretary Howard University Washington, D.C. 11:47 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! Hello, Howard! (Applause.) H-U! AUDIENCE: You know! THE PRESIDENT: H-U! AUDIENCE: You know! THE PRESIDENT: (Laughter.) Thank you so much, everybody. Please, please, have…

  • Obama Gets All In His Blackness At Howard

    Obama Gets All In His Blackness At Howard Code Switch National Public Radio 2016-05-10 Leah Donnella “Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness,” President Barack Obama told graduates and their families at Howard University’s 2016 Commencement Ceremony. It was one of many moments in a speech that honored the achievements of black…

  • Why Is There No “Linsanity” Over LA Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson?

    Why Is There No “Linsanity” Over LA Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson? Psychology Today 2016-05-09 E. J. R. David Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Alaska, Anchorage Lack of hype on NBA star may reflect larger issues in Asian American community May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May is also when the National Basketball Association…

  • Chris Harper Mercer’s “Mixed Race” Identity and the Umpqua Community College Shooting

    Chris Harper Mercer’s “Mixed Race” Identity and the Umpqua Community College Shooting Daily Kos 2015-10-02 Chauncey DeVega It is a new/old day in America. On Thursday, there was another mass shooting. On Friday, today, and tomorrow, and in the week’s thereafter America’s politicians will do nothing to stop the plague of gun violence. This is…

  • It’s not all black or white: reporter struggles with mixed-race identity The Lowell Lowell High School, San Francisco, California 2015-11-24 Rachael Schmidt Reporter Rachael Schmidt is half white and half black. Photo by Kiara Gil. I arrived at my cousin Angela’s fourteenth birthday party and was the first one there. Her mom is from Malaysia…

  • Racial Passing in American Life

    Racial Passing in American Life The Hill Center Washington, D.C. 2016-05-10 Lisa Page, Director of Creative Writing at The George Washington University, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, #Passing, moderates a discussion with Dr. Allyson Hobbs. Hobbs is an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University. She is the author of A Chosen Exile:…

  • Who gets to be Native American?

    Who gets to be Native American? Fusion 2016-03-11 Anna Pulley “Inhumane.” “Dishonorable.” “Genocide.” These were just a few of the dozens of Sharpied comments written on the hands of indigenous activists recently, as they launched a grassroots, social-media movement against tribal disenrollment, which is when a tribal government throws out its own members. The campaign,…

  • The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family

    The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-04-06 222 pages ISBN-13: 978-1522998952 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family traces four decades of what it means to be a mixed-race adult who sometimes…