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California paper Red Bluff Daily News covers Ward “Moneybags” Connerly’s recent speech at a Republican fundraiser. Interesting that the paper refers to affirmative action as “racial preferencing.” Anyway, here’s Ward’s usual load of bull:
“It shouldn’t be controversial for me to say that giving a person 250 bonus points simply because of his or her race […]

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Paris Hilton’s character in the recent film “House of Wax” dates a black man and believes she is pregnant by him. When reporters asked her what she thought of the fact that the black man/white girl pairing would have been controversial just 20 years ago, this is what she had to say:
“I never would look […]

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Sad that this kind of thing is still so commonplace. An interracial couple in Charlotte, NC found a cross burning in their backyard recently. Police are trying to determine if it’s a hate crime. By the sounds of it, this isn’t the first act of intimidation the couple has faced:
Kim and Robert Mackey say […]

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Last week’s New York magazine had an interesting article about how gentrification is affecting one single block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood long known as one of the most dangerous slums in Brooklyn, but now being prized for its supply of well-maintained brownstones and proximity to Manhattan.
The article points out that many of the neighborhood’s new […]

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The NY Times featured an article in their Sunday Styles section about Mavin’s Generation Mix tour and some of the other activism that is coming out of the mixed community. We were especially excited to have Mixed Media Watch mentioned! This is definitely one of the better articles we have seen written about the mixed […]

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Nirali Magazine highlights Navi Rawat, an up and coming actress in her 20s. She is recently getting a lot of attention for her ability to play a diversity of roles (the New York Daily News just named her a “Hot Face to Watch” in its January issue). In this article, she discusses her mixed heritage […]

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Nicholas Jones of the US Census Bureau has just released a report on the multiracial respondents of the 2000 Census, We the People of More Than One Race in the United States.
This report provides a portrait of the Two or More Races population in the United States and discusses the twelve largest race combinations within […]

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(Thanks to Asian Dude for this one!) Blog Purifying Flames questions the double standard of media coverage surrounding the Princeton attacks on Asian women. Why is it that these attacks are described merely as “lewd behavior,” when an almost-identical case involving all white female victims is referred to as “assault” and involves much harsher punishment?
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Wow, this guy wins the Asian Fetishist of the Year award. Princeton grad student Michael J. Lohman was arrested for more than 50 incidents of harassment targeting Asian women on the Princeton University campus. His crimes? Stealing panties, cutting locks of hair, squirting into women’s drinks… should I go on? Here’s a report from ZWire:
Investigators […]

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The Philadelphia Inquirer interviews former NBA star Charles Barkley, who is promoting his new book, Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man? in which he interviews 13 influential Americans - from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to Tiger Woods and George Lopez - who speak frankly about race and racism:
Barkley’s complexity enhances his controversial nature. […]

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The Tennessean talks to Nate Creekmore, a senior at Lipscomb University. Creekmore has won several awards for Maintaining, the comic strip he writes for the campus paper. His own experiences being mixed have definitely fueled the comic, which features a biracial character named Marcus. It’s possible that when he graduates, Maintaining will make it into […]

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The Seattle Times interviews Matt Kelley of the Mavin Foundation and one of the Generation Mix Tour participants about this trip around the country to raise awareness of mixed race identity and issues.
The Mavin Foundation in Seattle has picked five 20-somethings to travel around the country stirring up conversations about mixed-race people, raising awareness of […]