CVK & JC

Hey, it’s us hangin’ with Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker! As you know if you’re a follower of MMW and Addicted to Race, we have an endless capacity for cheese so we had to document our trip last night to watch the interracial romantic comedy “Something New.”
We’ll be giving it a […]

CVK
Tonight is the premiere of “For One Night,” a Lifetime original movie starring Raven-Symone, inspired by the true story of an Atlanta area student whose actions helped end her high school’s 31-year-old tradition of holding segregated proms. This was just 4 years ago. It’s crazy what the fear of miscegenation will drive people to do. […]

CVK
The New York Times did a long profile of Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for The New Yorker who is best known for his book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. His latest work is Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
Gladwell has been enormously successful, and he has […]

CVK
A new season of The Real World on MTV is starting soon, this time they’re shooting it in Key West. Blog ByronCrawford.com has a pretty funny roundup of the real story behind these characters:
Janelle, 23 — San Jose, CA
MTV says: Don’t let Janelle’s good looks fool you — she’s one tough cookie. This bi-racial beauty […]

JC & CVK
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free. Here’s a rundown of episode 15:
RANT:
“Diversity-speak”–those phrases like “cultural competency” or “tolerance” that mean absolutely nothing and only serve to obscure conversations […]

CVK
I had a chance this weekend to watch a couple episodes of the African-American Lives series that PBS is currently running as part of its Black History Month programming, and I highly recommend it to everyone. Check out local listings here.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family lineages of several high profile African-Americans, including Oprah […]

CVK
I love Alfre Woodard for being so open and outspoken about being in an interracial marriage and having mixed kids, but I don’t know about this latest quote she gave the CourierPostOnline:
Alfre Woodard has a theory about interracial romances. She believes they “far, far, far outlive” most relationships because the participants are forced to adopt […]

CVK
Thandie Newton is the new Bond girl, according to Korean Web site Ohmy News. She’s going to play “sexy spy” Vesper Lynd in the next Bond film, “ Casino Royale.” This part totally cracked me up:
It has been reported that New Bond Daniel Craig was said to be “deeply impressed” with the 33-year-old mother-of-two’s […]

JC
The Village Voice just published another mixed identity related article by Naomi Pabst. The article is well written, but I have to mention that I found it a bit weird that in a story about not wanting to be objectified, the writer would pick a picture like this one. I’m not saying that she […]

CVK
There’s an interesting story in the Chicago Sun-Times related to the upcoming film Something New. (Are you sick of it yet? ) They convened a roundtable of women–some black, some white, some mixed–to watch the film and then discuss how it related to their personal experiences. I thought this whole “inside tip” thing […]

CVK
There’s a excellent post over at the blog Diary of a Mad Kenyan Woman that deconstructs the myth of the Strong Black Woman (SBW). I’ve always had an issue with the over-use of this term but have never really been able to verbalize what I thought was problematic about it. Mad Kenyan Woman breaks it […]

JC

We posted about Nate Creekmore’s comic strip, Maintaining, a while back in April. He has a website now where you can check out some of the strips. To remind you, the main character of the strip is Marcus, a biracial high school student. Check it out! (Thanks to ELW for the heads-up!)

MC (a new MMW contributor!)
There was a really great episode of Supernatural on the WB,where one of the brothers (I think it was Jensen Ackles of Days of Our Lives fame) goes back to an Ohio town to solve the mystery death of his old flame’s father. His old flame turns out to be a […]

CVK
More Rain Pryor news! After performing her one-woman show “Fried Chicken & Latkes” for four months at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills, she’s taking the show on tour. The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles has an in-depth profile of Pryor that has some really interesting tidbits about her parents, hate crimes her family […]

CVK
Jump in on the heated discussions happening in the comments sections of Mixed Media Watch! Here are today’s most talked-about posts:
Sex with black man? Scary!
Rachel S: I had the same reaction……glad she was honest, but the comment about all of this melting away with a kiss. i don’t buy that.
Ben: Similar, but […]

CVK
(Thanks to Wayne for this!) A recent column in the New York Post discusses one white woman’s experience dating a black man. She thought she had no preconceived notions but when it came time to um, get down to business, she realized that she was terrified at the prospect of having sex with him:
Standing in […]