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  • Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5

    Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5 The Huffington Post 2012-12-10 Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer Interactive One I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands that I constantly engage co-workers around racial…

  • Whiteness in the Age of Obama

    Whiteness in the Age of Obama The Huffington Post 2012-11-26 Jedediah Purdy, Professor of Law Duke University Recall the numbers: 59 percent of white voters supported Romney. More dramatically, 88 percent of his votes came from whites. One simple but plausible analysis suggested that Obama won a majority of white votes only in New England,…

  • Barack Obama Reelection Signals Rise Of New America

    Barack Obama Reelection Signals Rise Of New America The Huffington Post 2012-11-07 Howard Fineman NEW YORK—President Barack Obama did not just win reelection tonight. His victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition. Obama, the mixed-race son…

  • The Future Is Now: What PR Pros and Marketers Need to Know About the “Mixed Mindset”

    The Future Is Now: What PR Pros and Marketers Need to Know About the “Mixed Mindset” The Huffington Post 2012-10-17 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Don’t believe the hype! Multiracials are not new. They are the products of racial blending of various groups—beginning with Native Americans and European…

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: A Talk With Julia Ivanova

    Family Portrait in Black and White: A Talk With Julia Ivanova The Huffington Post The Blog 2012-07-12 E. Nina Rothe, Global Culture Explorer The upcoming documentary by Julia Ivanova, titled Family Portrait in Black and White features a Ukrainian foster mother, Olga, and her brood of 27 foster kids. Ranging in ages between grade schoolers…

  • Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Talks Gay Marriage And LGBT Rights

    Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Talks Gay Marriage And LGBT Rights The Huffington Post 2012-09-12 Michelangelo Signorile Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo is going “full steam ahead” after his battle with Maryland legislator C. Emmett Burns Jr., who last week wrote a letter calling on the team’s owner to silence Ayanbadejo regarding his public advocacy…

  • Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White?

    Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He’s White? The Huffington Post 2012-08-02 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University With the November election less than 100 days away, the Obama campaign continues to come up against questions about the president’s racial identity. Most recently, reports that the president is “passing,” or claiming that he’s representing…

  • Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep?

    Is the Tanning of America Only Skin Deep? The Huffington Post 2012-05-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University It’s official: The United States is officially “tan.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s first population estimate by age, race, ethnicity, and sex since the 2010 Census, “50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age…

  • For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS)

    For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…

  • Marvel’s Mixed Race “Ultimate Spider-Man”

    Marvel’s Mixed Race “Ultimate Spider-Man” The Huffington Post 2011-08-03 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As a kid from Queens, NY it’s not hard to understand why Spider-Man has always been my favorite superhero. Aside from a shared geographical location Spider-Man reflected many of the qualities of urban youth. He came from a working class…