CVK
The New York Daily News reports that Heidi Klum and Seal are tying the knot today:
Heidi Klum and Seal are due to wed today in Mexico, we hear.
Word is the five-months-pregnant supermodel, who’ll wear Vera Wang, will exchange vows with the R&B crooner in a beach ceremony witnessed by about 40 of their closest friends […]

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
Nirali Magazine highlights Navi Rawat, an up and coming actress in her 20s. She is recently getting a lot of attention for her ability to play a diversity of roles (the New York Daily News just named her a “Hot Face to Watch” in its January issue). In this article, she discusses her mixed heritage […]

JC
Now…I’m not one to gossip ;), but…looks like Life & Style is getting canned and people are pointing the finger at Kimora. Her diva ways seem to have turned off more than a couple of people. The assumption about why she has failed to bring in the “urban” watchers is interesting. Perhaps the statement is […]

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Deborah Santana, wife of Carlos Santana, discusses her experiences, relationships, and mixed identity in new memoir, Space Between the Stars.
Born Deborah King in San Francisco in 1951, Santana is the daughter of a biracial marriage. Her father, African-American blues pioneer, guitarist, and distinguished tenor, Saunders King, cut the first significant electric blues record, 1942’s “SK […]

JC
But is she back? The show looks horrible! Check out this wonderfully sarcastic opinion piece (thanks for the tip, George!) from the New York Post about Kirstie Alley’s new sitcom (in which she plays herself), Fat Actress. This show sounds offensive on so many different levels…but I’m here to focus on one. The […]

JC
Dallas News ran an interview with Iman about her make-up line for women of color. She created Iman Cosmetics and Skincare Collection eleven years ago.
“I realized there wasn’t a makeup product on the market that met my needs or the needs of the majority of women of color,” says the daughter of an African diplomat […]

JC
Metropolis gives us a heads up on a new pop sensation in Japan — Crystal Kay (thanks to Michelle Myers for the tipoff on this story!) . Not only does she wow audiences with her voice and dancing skills, but also with her dual heritage. Her album, Almost Seventeen, will be out later this month.
With […]

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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, […]

CVK
Playbill reports that Jeffrey Wright is in talks to star alongside Ben Stiller in Neil LaBute’s new play, “This Is How It Goes” at New York’s Public Theater from March 8 to April 10:
In “This Is How It Goes,” LaBute trains his eye on a small town in America for what is billed as a […]

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Thanks to everyone who nominated our site for the 2005 Bloggies!
Mixed Media Watch is currently a FINALIST for the Best Kept Secret award, so please vote for us!
Please vote for us here.
(”Best Kept Secret” is the 4th category from the bottom.)
Thank you for your support, and please ask your friends and […]

JC
CNN reports that model Heidi Klum and singer Seal are engaged. Let’s hope that their mailboxes stay “hate free”.

CVK
Ugh. I don’t even know where to start with this one. A columnist on the Electronic Urban Report has written an opinion piece called “Black Women–The Dead Breed?” It’s the typical “not that I’m against black men dating outside their race, but…” article, only this one is on OVERDRIVE.
This is not to imply that it […]

JC
Daily News reports that the hateful letters targeting interracial couples continue. One of the latest recipients is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and wife.
Investigators believe the letters sent to Diggs and Menzel in late November are the work of the same hatemonger who targeted Thomas, Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and tennis star James […]

CVK
USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham proclaims that Tiger Woods should support the campaign for getting a presidential pardon for turn-of-the-century boxing champ Jack Johnson (the subject of a Ken Burns documentary “Unforgivable Blackness” that will air January 17th and 18th on PBS). He argues that Tiger was able to wed Swedish model Elin Nordegren last […]