Month: February 2017

  • Black Semitic Girl Reader At The Airport Medium 2017-02-07, 21:00 PST (Local Time) Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Theoretical Astro|Physicist Where books become bombs Seattle International Airport—Just spent 20 minutes being physically searched at Seattle airport, body searched, and at one point being spoken to and surrounded by seven — yes seven — TSA agents while being informed my backpack had bomb…

  • Mixed race and proud: LA’s multi-heritage kids navigate their identity 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2017-01-15 Deepa Fernandes Soleil Simone Haight loves saying all three of her names, running them together with sheer glee in her voice. She also proudly declares that she is five years old, that she has curly hair…

  • Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Kingstree News Kingstree, South Carolina 2017-02-07 Cassandra Williams Rush, Special to The News Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Photo by Ronald Walton Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails, an attorney, a member of the Electoral College, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, was the Mayor of Kingstree. He was born February 23, 1832…

  • Leyton playwright Lynette Linton’s play #Hashtag Lightie will be running at Arcola Theatre in Dalston Wimbledon Guardian 2017-01-23 Rachel Russell What does it mean to be mixed race in this day and age? That is the question being posed by Leyton writer Lynette Linton in her new play #Hashtag Lightie at the Arcola Theatre, in…

  • African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview  Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…

  • It’s February, and that means it’s Black History Month! Check out these four queer Black Canadian women authors whose books you should definitely have on your shelves.

  • Duncan McDonald: Flathead Indian Reservation Leader and Cultural Broker, 1849-1937 University of Nebraska Press 2016-03-31 256 pages 28 illustrations, 6 maps, index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934594-15-5 Robert Bigart, Librarian Emeritus Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Joseph McDonald, President Emeritus (and grandnephew of Duncan McDonald) Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana Duncan McDonald (1849–1937) led a remarkable life…

  • The Checkered Past of Brazil’s New Race Court (JWJI Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Jones Room, Woodruff Library The James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2017-02-06, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Ruth Hill, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Professor of Spanish Vanderbilt University, Nashville,…

  • Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland Rutgers University Press 2017-01-24 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7637-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7636-7 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7639-8 ePub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7638-1 Jane H. Yamashiro, Visiting Scholar Asian American Studies Center University of California, Los Angeles There is a rich body of literature on the experience of…

  • Safe space for multiracial students The Sagamore: Brookline High School’s student newspaper Brookline, Massachusetts 2017-02-04 Sofia Reynoso, Staff Writer According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s 2016-2016 data, 7.5 percent of the high school’s student body consists of multiracial students. A new club known as the Multiracial Identifying Community (MIC) is forming…