CVK
NPR’s All Things Considered did a story on Mavin’s Generation Mix tour. You can listen to the feed online here: A Generation of Mixed Race Youth Speaks Out. The story is pretty basic, but at least it doesn’t further reinforce any of the awful stereotypes out there about mixed folks. Sometimes, that alone is […]

JC

The NY Times featured an article in their Sunday Styles section about Mavin’s Generation Mix tour and some of the other activism that is coming out of the mixed community. We were especially excited to have Mixed Media Watch mentioned! This is definitely one of the better articles we have seen written about the mixed […]

JC
UCBerkeley News follows up on their article of last week about four mixed students in order to highlight some additional thoughts from other members of the Berkeley community.
Thus, for me, race is an artificial construct, which isolates me from those unknowledgeable of the biracial experience. At the same time, my races help me […]

CVK
This is the letter I wrote to Essence magazine, complimenting them on their profile of Mariah Carey. Historically, Essence has not been the most forward-looking in the way they’ve handled mixed race issues or interracial relationships. Therefore, it was refreshing to see a very different take on the topic in their April 2005 issue. In […]

CVK
Mariah Carey graces the cover of Essence’s April issue. Though the coverline takes a one-drop stance (”Mariah Carey: America’s Most Misunderstood Black Woman”), the article inside deals almost completely with her mixed identity, and makes for pretty interesting reading. Here are some excerpts:
So this isn’t a twenty-first-century version of Imitation of Life. Still, race and […]

JC
Check out Mix It Up, a new line of greeting cards that serves consumers in the mixed community. The founders, Tiffany & Courtney Morrison, were inspired to create cards that reflected families like theirs.
Our family, the Morrison family, is made up of dad, who’s African-American, mom, who’s of English & Scottish descent, and us. We’ve […]

RN

Years ago filmmaker Cheuk Kwan was in Istanbul and came across a Chinese restaurant. Kwan had heard that the owner had actually walked from China. The discovery and amazing story sparked a life-long obsession that resulted in a 13-part documentary series that took Kwan and his crew to more than 13 countries. Kwan’s camera […]

CVK

There’s a good article on UC Berkeley’s NewsCenter that explores what it’s like to be a mixed student at that school, where 22.9% of undergrads self-identified as mixed in a 2004 survey. (Across the UC system, the average was 25.8 percent. ) The article details the divergent experiences of four students, but also does a […]

RN

Filmmaker and musician James Spooner always felt like an outsider, and that’s not because of his piercings and bright red hair. Growing up in California and New York, Spooner was introduced to punk music when he was eight and fell in love with the genre’s energy, DIY attitude and rebeliousness. But as a black man […]

JC

Aaron McGruder of The Boondocks wrote “Moneybags” into Saturday’s strip….hmm…i’ve been wanting to give him a piece of my mind…gives me ideas. See it here.

CVK
Tragic mulattos, of course! The last segment of Ego Trip’s Race-O-Rama aired on VH1 last night and it was very funny, and really quite good. The episode was titled “In Race We Lust” and explored all the taboo and stereotypes surrounding interracial couples and their mixed-race offspring. People in the mixed community probably wouldn’t have […]

CVK
Just when you thought Ward “Moneybags” Connerly couldn’t possibly squeeze any more money out of pimping his mixed race identity to conservatives out to destroy affirmative action, along comes the Bradley Prize, which gave him a quarter million dollars for… well, just for being his adorable little self. The Washington Post reports on the evening […]

JC
The Houston Chronicle features a story on multiracial advertising of today. The author interviews some who criticize such ads (like Verizon’s “The Elliotts”, winner of a 2004 MMW Image Award) for reflecting a world where the races are intermingling and intermarrying without conflict. What about the families and people for which these images ring true? […]

JC
A reporter for the Ledger discusses race and identity with some teens from Lakeland High School in Florida. What she found is that diversity is much more a part of their life now than for teens in generations past. They are more likely to “blend”. Why? Well, just look around!
Now, when black kids hang […]

CVK
Rebecca Walker spoke at U Mich Tuesday night as part of a series of events taking place this month at the University in honor of Black History Month, with the theme ‘Loud Words, Louder Actions.’
Walker is best-known for her first book, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, which reflected on her experiences […]

JC & CVK
Media watchdog organization Mixed Media Watch announces that Jennifer Beals, The Rock, Showtime’s The L Word, UPN’s Girlfriends, and Verizon’s “The Elliotts” ad campaign are among its Image Award honorees.
New York, NY, February 9, 2005 — Mixed Media Watch, an organization that seeks to promote more realistic, three-dimensional portrayals of mixed race people, […]

JC
Juan Esparza of the Fresno Bee talks with a couple of Californians about the growth of the multiethnic population there.
When Fresno school board candidate Valerie Davis fielded a question about cultural diversity at a forum last October, she talked about her own identity. “You’re looking at a culturally diverse rich woman,” said Davis, who went […]

CVK
As we told you in early December, under intense criticism, Ward Connerly has decided to decline any possible re-appoinment to the UC Board of Regents. San Jose Mercury News takes a look back at his legacy: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Also check out similar articles in the San Francisco Chronicle and the […]

CVK
The Seattle Times profiles Matt Kelley, president of the MAVIN foundation. The article talks about MAVIN’s various projects, including its bone-marrow drives, the Seattle community plan, and the upcoming Generation Mix tour. (We wrote about the tour on November 12, 2004 and our post generated a lot of debate and discussion. Check it out here.)
A […]

JC
The New York Daily News interviews transracial adoptees who hope to pave the way for a younger generation of adoptees by providing resources.
Today’s adoptees - who last year numbered 21,616 - are raised in a climate that strives to smooth the bumps of a cross-cultural upbringing with heritage days, culture camps, birth-country tours, […]