SA (a new MMW contributor!)
I’ll admit it, Iwent to see a PG rated movie the other day, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”, but for some reason I felt like seeing it, I think mostly because one of the stars is America Ferrera, the girl who played the main character in “Real Women Have Curves”, […]

JC
ABC 7 News reports on an interracial couple in Maryland that is dealing with anonymous harassers. Apparently, the racist flyers that littered the lawn of this black-white couple is one of a few hate crimes that have recently occurred in the area.
Jackie Underwood says she has cleaned up more than two-dozen racist fliers at […]

CVK
An opinion piece in the Berkeley Daily Planet poses the question: do people choose to identify as mixed as a way to insulate themselves from the racist behavior targeting their black heritage? The writer uses “The Tipping Point” author Malcolm Gladwell as an example:
A San Francisco Chronicle article on Gladwell (published Jan. 30) revealed that […]

AY (a new MMW contributor!)
From angryasianman.com…FYI Graves, who is mixed heritage Vietnamese, had actually been pitching poorly, which coincided with this altercation. There are quite a few articles about this incident floating out there, but very few discuss the fan’s alleged racist comment:
05.28.05
Kind of reminds me the Arthur Chi’en firing, but worse…. The Cincinnati […]

JC
The New York Blade reports on the 25th Anniversary of MACT (Men of All Colors Together), a political and social organization that has fought for racial justice and has worked to support men in interracial same-sex relationships. It started in the 80s when there was very little acceptance. The climate has changed a bit since […]

CVK
Wow… we’re up to at least 4 cross-burnings in the last 7 months. It’s unbelievable that interracial couples still provoke this kind of hate crime in our day and age. This time it happened in a suburb of Chicago. From the Chicago Tribune:
Barnett said he has lived in his house in the 200 block […]

CVK
Soooo cheesy, but I saw it on Good Morning America this morning and had to report back. So Marty Johnson, this regular guy in Minnesota decides he’s going to look for his birth parents. He finds his mom pretty quickly, who explains that he was born after a brief affair she had with this Nigerian […]

JC
Check out this article written by Carmen Van Kerckhove (my MMW partner-in-crime ;)) written just in time for the 38th Anniversary of Loving V. Virginia. She takes a look at some of the patterns in how the media portrays interracial couples. Read the full version at New Demographic. Here are some exerpts:
This tragic-mulatto-raised-by-single-white-mother story pops […]

RK (a new MMW contributor!)
As if adoption weren’t difficult enough: making the decision to adopt, dealing with one’s family and their 2 cents on the matter, the infuriating waiting game… when really all adoptive parents are trying to do is GOOD by opening their home and hearts to a child who maybe would not have […]