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Columnist Phil Hogan just wrote a great piece for U.K. paper The Observer about finding out his great-grandfather was a black man from Antigua. Not only is it pleasantly free of the usual hysterics that accompany this kind of discovery, but it’s also nice to see that he’s aware of how it might be problematic […]

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Clothing company American Apparel is known for its racy ads, many of which exoticize mixed people (see February’s post American Apparel: t-shirts, sex and mixed people too). The company’s CEO Dov Charney, with his handlebar moustache and his propensity for posing for pics in his underwear, has also cultivated a hyper-sexualized persona for himself. By […]

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Wentworth Miller just did a really interesting interview with EURWeb.com. Miller will soon be starring in the Fox series “Prison Break” and has recently played Mariah Carey’s love interest in her music videos, but most of us first saw him as the young Anthony Hopkins in the film “The Human Stain.” In that film, Miller […]

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Jolie family increases by 1! People magazine first reported on Tuesday that misunderstood superstar actress, Angelina Jolie, has recently added another member to her family. Joining son Maddox, comes little Zahara. Adopted from Ethiopia, baby Zahara was abandoned as an AIDS orphan. Jolie made a trip to Ethiopia in conjunction with her work as Goodwill […]

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It feels slightly ridiculous to keep posting about these cross-burning incidents. A part of me isn’t sure whether this is truly a new story, because these are all starting to sound too familiar. How many stories of cross-burnings have we seen in this past year alone?! This time, a cross was burned for *two* consecutive […]

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Actress Jennifer Tilly knows when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em, as she won the Ladies no-limit Texas Holdem event at the World Series of Poker, held last week in Las Vegas.
Tilly, who was Oscar-nominated for her performance in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway. Known for her distinctive speaking voice, Jennifer Tilly has […]

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Why was UK born, Oscar nominated, Academy Award winning actor Ben Kingsley so amazingly convincing as the Mahatma Gandhi, in 1982’s “Gandhi?” While his body of work may not lead you to infer it, Kingsley is a mixed-race actor of Russian, Jewish and Indian descent. In fact, Kingsley’s father’s family is from the Indian state […]

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Check out this great article that my Mixed Media Watch partner-in-crime Jen Chau just wrote. You can read the entire article, Whether Or Not There Are “Issues,” Parents Need to Talk With Their Mixed Heritage Kids on the New Demographic Web site, but here are some excerpts:
As we all know, kids don’t always talk about […]

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(Thanks to Kimberly for this tip!) Hello magazine reports that just days before his coronation as Monaco’s new king, Prince Albert has admitted that he fathered a son, who is now nearly two years old, with a flight attendant from Togo.
A statement released via the prince’s lawyer said that the Prince wanted to live up […]

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ICK ICK ICK! The greenlighting exec at ABC is Asian?!?! See Yahoo! News article.
“I didn’t think that people would be this nervous,” Andrea Wong, head of alternative programming at ABC, said before Wednesdays decision to ditch the show. “Because I really think its such a positive show and such a good thing to put on […]

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The Detroit Free Press talks with a few people about their identity and how they navigate questions from strangers. Given the context and how people ask, it can be either a pleasant experience or a very frustrating one.
While shopping at a Meijer in Muskegon a few years ago, a man Burmeister had never met before […]

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If you are “mixed blood” and in Korea, you can finally expect to get some support. The Korea Herald reports on a new organization that is being formed which will advocate for Amerasians.
The Korea League Association of International Family, is poised to be established this Thursday and will become the first legal advocate group for […]