Tag: Ebony Magazine

  • Black Mom + Indian Dad = Search for Identity Ebony Magazine 2012-12-17 Sharda Sekaran Sharda Sekaran can’t deny her East Indian roots, but she can’t find them either It was my senior year of college. I sat at the end of a long oval table in a meeting room in one of the academic buildings.…

  • Argentina: Land of the Vanishing Blacks Ebony Magazine October 1973 pages 74-85 Era Bell Thompson Once outnumbering whites five to one, blacks were absorbed and inundated by massive immigration “If you are looking for black people, why,” they asked helpfully, “did you come to Argentina? Why don’t you go to Brazil?” Well, I had been…

  • The Civil War afforded the community of free Negroes an opportunity to show their solidarity with their enslaved brothers in the South. Anti-Confederate feeling was so strong in Gouldtown [in New Jersey] that all the men offered to fight. The community officially informed President Lincoln that it could raise a regiment of colored men burning…

  • Negro History, Part X: Miscegenation in America Ebony Magazine October 1962 pages 94-104 (Digitized by Google) Lerone Bennett, Jr., Executive Editor The material in this chapter on miscegenation during the slavery period is based largely on James Hugo Johnston’s doctorial dissertation at the University of Chicago, Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South,…

  • Multiracal In America Ebony Magazine May 2011 Adam Serwer In The Mix: Being Biracial in America When President Barack Obama checked “Black” on his census form last April, it was an actual news story. The Associated Press subhed [sub-headline] was lined with implicit anguish: “President Ticks One Box Concerning Racial Heritage on U.S. Census Form,…