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  • Sugar Pie DeSanto: After 50 Years, ‘Go Going’ Strong

    Sugar Pie DeSanto: After 50 Years, ‘Go Going’ Strong Fresh Air from WHYY [Philadelphia] National Public Radio 2010-07-29 Terry Gross, Host Ed Ward, Rock Music Commentator Ace Records Sugar Pie DeSanto was born in Brooklyn in October 1935, and was christened Umpeleya Marsema Balinton. Her father was Filipino, her mother African-American. Her mother had been…

  • A Family Tree That Includes Slaves — And Slave Owners

    A Family Tree That Includes Slaves — And Slave Owners Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-08-15 Celeste Headlee, Host Part of our summer reading series Island Reads, highlighting authors from the Caribbean Andrea Stuart was curious about her family’s history in Barbados. And through years of careful research, she found that her bloodline includes…

  • Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race

    Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2013-08-13 Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent and Host Ari Schapiro, White House Correspondent On race, Barack Obama often says he is not president of black America, but of the United States of America. Though he has not avoided the subject during his…

  • ‘Americanah’ Author Explains ‘Learning’ To Be Black In The U.S.

    ‘Americanah’ Author Explains ‘Learning’ To Be Black In The U.S. Fresh Air from WHYY National Public Radio 2013-06-27 Terry Gross, Host When the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was growing up in Nigeria she was not used to being identified by the color of her skin. That changed when she arrived in the United States for…

  • Coming Out As Black, When You Were Hispanic

    Coming Out As Black, When You Were Hispanic Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-06-06 Celeste Headlee, Guest Host High school senior Elaine Vilorio wrote that she started seriously contemplating her blackness when she stopped straightening her hair. Elaine Vilorio Teen Elaine Vilorio spent years trying to make sense of her racial identity. She describes…

  • ‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013

    ‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…

  • ‘Show Boat’ Steams On, Eternally American

    ‘Show Boat’ Steams On, Eternally American All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-07 Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent It’s been more than eight decades since Show Boat — the seminal masterpiece of the American musical theater — premiered on a stage in Washington, D.C. Now the sprawling classic is back, in a lush production put…

  • A White Face With A Forgotten African Family

    A White Face With A Forgotten African Family All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-11-24 Jacki Lyden, Host Growing up blond-haired and blue-eyed in Southern California, Joe Mozingo always thought his family name was Italian. But as an adult, Mozingo became skeptical of that theory when friends and co-workers began to ask him about his…

  • When You’re Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough

    When You’re Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays National Public Radio 2013-04-02 NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris…

  • Census Bureau Rethinks The Best Way To Measure Race

    Census Bureau Rethinks The Best Way To Measure Race National Public Radio 2012-12-27 Corey Dade, National Correspondent, Digital News Possible revisions to how the decennial census asks questions about race and ethnicity have raised concerns among some groups that any changes could reduce their population count and thus weaken their electoral clout. The Census Bureau…