Tag: Black Entertainment Television

  • Look: Co-Parenting Mixed-Race Kids Requires More Than Racial Tolerance Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2016-12-15 Ashley Simpo What happens when fetishizing Black bodies results in having to raise one? An interview with Nick Harris. It’s far from unique to see an interracial couple these days. The millennial generation is the most racially mixed to date and the…

  • Misty Copeland on Why She Doesn’t Identify as Biracial: ‘I Am Viewed as a Black Woman’ Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2015-10-15 Evelyn Diaz Misty Copeland The history-making ballerina on changing the game. Misty Copeland and director Nelson George recently talked about their new documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale, which chronicles Copeland’s awe-inspiring rise to becoming the…

  • Do you identify as Black, mixed — how do you see yourself? I’m both. Everything and nothing. Clay Cane, “Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes: “I Don’t Think About Color”,” Black Entertainment Television, (June 25, 2013). http://www.bet.com/news/music/2013/06/25/brittany-howard-of-the-alabama-shakes-i-don-t-think-about-color.html.

  • If you haven’t heard of Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, the 24-year-old is making jaws drop in the music industry. Armed with ferocious vocals, passionate lyrics and a dynamic presence — on and off stage — Howard as the front woman of the Alabama Shakes is bringing rock and blues back from the grave…

  • Commentary: Black Is… Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2012-12-17 James Braxton Peterson, Director of Africana Studies; Associate Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Black in America explores what it means to be Black. CNN’s Black in America series has become something of a welcome crucible for the Black community these last four years — especially…

  • Commentary: Morgan Freeman’s Misguided “Mixed-Race President” Quote Black Entertainment Television 2012-07-09 Cord Jefferson The legendary Black actor made a silly mistake when he said Obama isn’t a truly Black president, because fewer and fewer truly Black Americans exist. Morgan Freeman is one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood, and for good reason: He’s…