CVK
Alternet.org profiles rapper Lyrics Born:
It’s rare for any musician to leap into the mainstream and cause a whirlpool in the currents without a multi-million dollar safety vest. It’s rare for any musician to have a number one hit for eight weeks on a popular radio station without payola. It’s even more rare if that station, […]

JC

So I went to see “Four Brothers” to (a) bond with my dad and brothers who love these crazy killing-type movies and (b) to fulfill my duty to MMW. As you know, I was a little concerned about what the movie would be like…potentially just a flick that said: “Oh my goodness — look […]

JC
Joe Hernandez-Kolski is in town (NYC) to present his one-man show, You Wanna Piece of Me? Check him out! He’ll be presenting at the Ace of Clubs for 5 shows from August 20th through the 27th. Check out his site for all of the details!
BTW, I met Joe when he recently attended a […]

CVK & JC
If you haven’t already, please join our mailing list so that you can begin receiving our monthly email newsletter. Around the 15th of each month, Mixed Media Watch will fill you in on the previous month’s opinion pieces, action items, and top 10 news stories that made it onto our radar. This is […]

CVK
Great article on SFGate.com about Apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas. He’s written a song on their latest album that is completely in Tagalog:
It is not the first time that Black Eyed Peas, who will perform this weekend with the Dave Matthews band at SBC Park, has experimented with Tagalog. “The Apl Song” in “Elephunk” […]

JC
Four Brothers is the new flick that allows Tyrese, Mark Wahlberg, Andre Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund to be brothers. The four transracial adoptees come together to find their white mother’s killer. Not quite sure about how this will all come off, but I have a bad feeling about it. Yes, it could be one of […]

CVK
Here are some excerpts from the L.A. Times obituary on Ibrahim Ferrer:
Ibrahim Ferrer, the humble, soft-spoken Cuban singer who achieved long-delayed international fame only after he was recruited for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, has died. He was 78…
In 1999, German filmmaker Wim Wenders featured Ferrer and his colleagues in the highly popular Oscar-nominated […]

CVK
Man, I’m going into major Angry Asian Man withdrawal, since he went on his break. Hope everything’s ok. We miss you!

CVK

If you’re in NYC, be sure to check out the fabulous and talented Kate Rigg in her critically acclaimed show, Chink-O-Rama. It’s a hilarious sendup of all the racial stereotypes out there about Asians. But be warned - it’s not for the easily offended.
After a 2 year hiatus, Chink-O-Rama is finally back in […]

CVK
The New York Daily News’s Daily Dish reports on the relationship between comedian Bill Maher and Karrine Steffans, who just wrote the tell-all book “Confessions of a Video Vixen:”
Meanwhile, Steffans’ relationship with Bill Maher is proceeding nicely.
“She’s funny and beautiful,” the comic told us yesterday at a lunch that HBO honcho Richard Plepler threw for […]

JC & CVK
We’re excited to announce that we’ve just launched our own podcast radio show, called Addicted to Race! Please subscribe today by visiting our Web site at:
http://www.addictedtorace.com
As a friend of Mixed Media Watch, you know that we’re passionate about more three-dimensional, realistic media representations of mixed people, couples and families. So it was only […]

CVK
If you’d like to learn more about this case, or if you have information that could help the family, please visit www.tamikahuston.com
Dear Ms. Chau and Ms. Van Kerckhove:
Please look again carefully. I believe you’ve failed to notice both Rebkah’s and Tamika’s mixed heritage when this seems to be what your blog is devoted to.
My sister, […]

CVK
I posted the item below yesterday, but took it down immediately when I received emails from Tamika’s family members. It turns out that I completely misread the show, and it’s a valuable lesson in how our assumptions can get in the way of our perceptions of reality. It turns out that Rebkah Howard is not […]

CVK
Okay, this might be one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Our friend Megan happened across this little gem on a recent trip to Europe. This goes beyond being a spork - it’s a knife too! It really is the ultimate MIXED utensil! So what shall we name our […]

JC
Anthony Walker was bludgeoned to death last week. What were the circumstances? This black teenager was merely sitting on a bench with his white girlfriend. Apparently this was enough to enrage his killer. In the wake of this horrible hate crime, two people contemplate Britain’s handling of interracial relationships in The Guardian. It’s interesting to […]

JC
We first told you about the pulled reality show “Welcome to the Neighborhood” in the end of June. Now a resident from the actual neighborhood (Circle C Ranch) where the show was filmed speaks out. I think it really was as ugly as we all feared…
…Another judge, speaking of the black family, discovers “what nice, […]

CVK
There’s an interesting debate brewing at Salon.com, triggered by an article Debra Dickerson wrote, titled I Want You to Want Me.
Dickerson starts off by noting that in “The Wedding Crashers,” Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn “seduced their way through every culture and every ethnicity but mine”–that is, they don’t sleep with any black women. She […]

JC
People’s lurid fascination with interracial sex is a major impediment to meaningful discussions about interracial relationships. It also explains why the rights of interracial couples have never really been taken seriously as a civil rights issue. On the 50th anniversary of Emmett Till’s death, Carmen Van Kerckhove asks: How can you divorce interracial relationships from […]

RK
MMW favorite, Barack Obama is top man in the 50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill. Can’t attest for the rest of the list, but in Obama’s case, it’s brains and beauty inside and out. (This is according to The Hill, which bills itself as “The Newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress”)