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The San Fransisco Chronicle covers a study of Asian Americans in primetime TV that demonstrates (surprise, surprise) that they’re way under-represented:
Asians, who make up 5 percent of the U.S. population, play 2.7 percent of regular characters. It also shows virtually no Asian actors are on situation comedies, and the characters they play in dramas tend […]

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Last week’s New York magazine had an interesting article about how gentrification is affecting one single block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood long known as one of the most dangerous slums in Brooklyn, but now being prized for its supply of well-maintained brownstones and proximity to Manhattan.
The article points out that many of the neighborhood’s new […]

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The Charlotte Observer has an article by Jim Morrill about the revelation that he had black ancestors, and his quest to find out more about his family history:
When I was about 30, my mother confided a secret: My great-grandmother — the mother of my dad’s father — was black.Growing up with blond hair and blue […]

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The Canadian Press has an article about a new childrens book publishing company called Printakid, which offers parents the ability to personalize books, so that the protagonist of the book has the same name and physical characteristics of their child. The child’s family members’ names can also be inserted into the book. And of course, […]