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Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News ponders the rising rates of black female-white male relationships. He attributes the growth of these couples to the vast shortage of black men available to black women. He blames high rates of incarceration and fear of medical care. Thanks to Kim D. for the heads up on […]
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The Detroit Free Press profiles Arbelia Wood, possibly the world’s oldest woman at age 119. Wood is biracial, and has a familiar, but still sad family history:
According to family lore, in the mid-1880s in Mississippi a white farmer gave an ultimatum to a sharecropper and daughter of former slaves: Sleep with him or leave. Muggie […]
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The Buffalo News reports on an ongoing investigation to locate a serial rapist in Buffalo. What’s problematic is that the police are partially relying on a DNA test that determines the suspect’s supposed racial make-up:
A Florida company, DNAPrint Genomics, has determined that the local rapist is 51 percent European (white), 30 percent Native American, 13 […]
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of New Demographic, an anti-racism training company. She hosts the podcast Addicted to Race and blogs at Racialicious, Anti-Racist Parent, and Race in the Workplace. You can reach her at 917.657.3886 or carmen@newdemographic.com.