Tag: Weekend Edition Sunday

  • A New Orleans Company Shines A Light On Opera’s Diverse History Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2017-05-28 Malika Gumpangkum and Lulu Garcia-Navarro From left to right: Aria Mason (Rosalia), Ebonee Davis (Piquita) and Kenya Lawrence Jackson (La Flamenca) star in OperaCréole’s production of La Flamenca. Cedric A. Ellsworth/Courtesy of OperaCréole For many people, New…

  • Novelist Mat Johnson Explores The ‘Optical Illusion’ Of Being Biracial Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2015-05-24 Growing up in Philadelphia, Mat Johnson lived mostly with his mother in a black neighborhood. The son of an African-American mother and an Irish-American father, his skin was so light that he might have passed for white. But…

  • Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’ Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2009-11-08 Liane Hansen, Host The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up…