JC

Aaron McGruder of The Boondocks wrote “Moneybags” into Saturday’s strip….hmm…i’ve been wanting to give him a piece of my mind…gives me ideas. ;) See it here.

CVK

MSNBC reports that Eva Mendes was cast opposite Will Smith in the romantic comedy “Hitch” as a way to avoid the taboo of a black/white interracial couple:
Eva Mendes was given the role opposite Smith because the moviemakers were worried about the public’s reaction if the part was given to a white or an African American […]

ELW
I too saw ‘In Race We Lust’ last night. I agree that it did a pretty good job of talking about lots of the stereotypes.
What i did not like were the sections where they polled the various interviewees about which mixed celeb is more this or that (insert race). Like asking people who they […]

CVK
Asian Media Watchdog, which along with Asian Media Watch is one of the leading Asian-American media watchdog organizations, and one of the powerhouses behind the Hot 97 “tsunami song” campaign, has posted a lengthy interview with director Greg Pak (”Robot Stories”) on their site. Greg talks about the state of Asian-American media representation, the positive […]

CVK
Tragic mulattos, of course! The last segment of Ego Trip’s Race-O-Rama aired on VH1 last night and it was very funny, and really quite good. The episode was titled “In Race We Lust” and explored all the taboo and stereotypes surrounding interracial couples and their mixed-race offspring. People in the mixed community probably wouldn’t have […]

CVK
Just when you thought Ward “Moneybags” Connerly couldn’t possibly squeeze any more money out of pimping his mixed race identity to conservatives out to destroy affirmative action, along comes the Bradley Prize, which gave him a quarter million dollars for… well, just for being his adorable little self. The Washington Post reports on the evening […]

CVK
Ego Trip’s Race-o-Rama, a 3-part series about race and racism in pop culture, premiered this week on VH1. (We told you about it late last month.) Last night’s episode was on “Blackaphobia!” and it explored why white people are so scared of blacks, and how the media has perpetuated these stereotypes.
So in one segment, […]

ES
Sort of not very timely now, but I noticed that Sandra Oh’s character in Sideways had a biracial daughter. We first see her in photographs on the fridge, where she looks black and Asian American, but when she appears in the flesh for the first time, a different girl portrays her. The actress […]

ES

“Bride and Prejudice” is opening today, and film critic Roger Ebert describes the director (and her interests)as follows:
“[Gurinder] Chadha, who was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is married to a Japanese-American, seems attracted to ethnic multi-tasking. Her “What’s Cooking?” is set in Los Angeles and tells parallel stories about families with Vietnamese, African-American, […]

CVK
By sheer coincidence, last week’s New York Magazine was chock-full of mixed folks in its Culture Pages section. First up was an interview with MMW Image Award winner Jennifer Beals:
After green-lighting The L Word, Showtime approached Beals about playing one of two characters: Bette, a headstrong, temperamental workaholic, and Tina, Bette’s slightly more well-adjusted domestic […]

CVK
MTV News interviews Amerie about her upcoming followup album, “Touch.” I am LOVING her first single, “1 Thing” which is in rotation right now since it’s on the soundtrack to the Will Smith movie “Hitch.” If you haven’t heard it yet, check it out cause the beat is SICK. Okay, I’ll stop raving now. :) […]

JC
Sarah Jones is a mixed race playwright, actor, and poet. Watch her on Bravo tonight (9/8c) if you can! She will be taking the amazing work she does through her one-woman shows to the ‘tube for this special. You can check out a preview clip of the show at Bravo…and her official site here. Thanks […]

JC
The Houston Chronicle features a story on multiracial advertising of today. The author interviews some who criticize such ads (like Verizon’s “The Elliotts”, winner of a 2004 MMW Image Award) for reflecting a world where the races are intermingling and intermarrying without conflict. What about the families and people for which these images ring true? […]

JC
New York Times reviews Rachel Factor’s one-woman-show, J.A.P. Through song and monologues, Rachel explores the journey she has taken from Hawaii, to being a rockette at Radio City, to converting to Orthodox Judaism and moving to Israel. She talks about how she assumed that her opportunities in the entertainment industry would be limited once […]

CVK

I’m probably one of the only people in the world who didn’t watch the Superbowl, so I’m only catching onto this now. Apparently a new iTunes/Pepsi commercial made its debut during the show, and people are going crazy over one of the girls in the ad. So crazy in fact, that one guy has dedicated […]

JT
American Apparel is the Los Angeles based clothing manufacturer well known for its sweatshop free production and colorful product line. You probably also know them for their ultra skinned-out advertisements often depicting women and men wearing the barest of garments, and in awkward poses. To their marketing stratagem of home-style photography, semi-nudity and of course […]

JC
Metropolis gives us a heads up on a new pop sensation in Japan — Crystal Kay (thanks to Michelle Myers for the tipoff on this story!) . Not only does she wow audiences with her voice and dancing skills, but also with her dual heritage. Her album, Almost Seventeen, will be out later this month.
With […]

JC
A reporter for the Ledger discusses race and identity with some teens from Lakeland High School in Florida. What she found is that diversity is much more a part of their life now than for teens in generations past. They are more likely to “blend”. Why? Well, just look around!
Now, when black kids hang […]

JC
Minnesota Public Radio reports on a new play that will be showing at the Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. Slippery When Wet features an interracial relationship, similar to one that playwright S.H. Murakoshi experienced first-hand.
Murakoshi says she was constantly insecure, plus she had to deal with the stares and comments from people on […]

CVK
Valentines Day is approaching, and along with comes a slew of silly articles celebrating everyone’s favorite forbidden topic: interracial LURVE…
You can take a look at some of these articles yourself. They’re all basically coming from the same well-intentioned but simplistic place: if two people can overcome racial obstacles and social ostracization for love, their love […]