Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2012Posted in Articles, Media Archive, United States on 2012-08-12 22:33Z by Steven |
Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2012
Multicultural Familia: Educating & Empowering Modern Familes
2012-07-27
Glenn Robinson
Two-thousand twelve was another fun and inspirational Mixed Roots festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
Highlights from the movies and readings that I attended:
Friday evening was the beautiful and inspirational movie The Loving Story…
…Sunday was an emotional reading by Devin Hughes of his account with racism as an 8 year old. When Hughes took the podium you saw a tall man made of bricks and steel. A couple minutes into his reading you saw him transform into an 8 year old boy. He apologized for crying. This was his first reading from his new memoir, Contrast, that will be out this summer of 2012…
..Steven Riley of Mixed Race Studies, raffled off free books both Satuday and Sunday. He wrote about the books he gave away in his post here…
Read the entire article here.