It’s Famous Friday!
Happy Friday everyone! This week’s Famous Friday is on American Singer-Songwriter Tori Kelly. Kelly was born December 14, 1992, and is of Jamaican, Puerto Rican and Irish descent. She currently lives in Wildomar, California and is married to André [...]
Legitimizing Multiracial Identities
Stigma Impacts Psychological, Physical Health of Multiracial People The multiracial population is one of the fastest-growing minority groups but faces stigma challenges 21-Oct-2020 3:20 PM EDT, by Rutgers University-New Brunswick favorite_border Newswise — Policy changes can help to fight stigmas of multiracial [...]
DID THE CENSUS BUREAU “ALLOW” MULTIRACIAL PEOPLE ANYTHING?
Did the Census Bureau “allow” multiracial people anything? A new scholarly paper has come out, published by Sage Publications. It’s called “How Policies Can Address Multiracial Stigma” and begins with this: On the second anniversary of the first U.S. Census [...]
It’s the Weekend!
You are a busy person. Taking care of business, family, relationships, and everything else you must accomplish is overwhelming. Sometimes we forget things. Did you forget that it is time for the Project RACE Fall Fundraising weekend? While we’re planning [...]
NO to the New York Times
TO THE NEW YORK TIMES: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ETHICIST It is ironic that Kwame Anthony Appiah is “the ethicist” for the New York Times. An ethicist is a person who specializes in or writes on ethics or who [...]
Finally!
The 2020 Census. Yesterday, the Supreme Court gave the Trump admin the green light to stop its count of the US population – ahead of schedule. The ruling is considered a win for the admin, which had moved up the [...]
Voters View Multiracials
Kamala HarrisWikipedia Psychology Today has published an article titled "How Voters Tend to Perceive Multiracial Individuals" by Jacqueline Chen PhD. It's certainly worth a read although I'm not sure there is much in it that we don't know. [...]
It’s Famous Friday!
Happy Friday everyone! We hope that you are staying as safe and as healthy as possible during these uncertain times. This week’s focus is on writer and musician James McBride. McBride was born on September 11, 1957, in New [...]
Ms. Magazine Tries a Little Harder, but gets Confused
Ms. Magazine tries harder, but gets confused. Two of their writers, Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and Haley Taylor Schlitz wrote an article titled "Politicizing Blackness, Multiracial Love and Identity: "That we Make of this Moment is on Us." They say, "For [...]
NBC Missed the Mark
NBC MISSED THE MARK Saloni Gajjar of NBC completely missed the concept of Kamala Harris being biracial when he wrote this: “Sen. Kamala Harris' facial expressions while Vice President Mike Pence was responding to questions about the administration's Covid-19 response [...]
The New York Times Tries Harder
THE NEW YORK TIMES TRIES HARDER The New York Times is still afraid of using the terms “biracial” and “multiracial. Readers of this blog know that Kwame Anthony Appiah and I usually see the world of reporting on race differently, [...]
CNN TRIED
CNN has refused to call Kamala Harris multiracial. All their stories refer to her as Black and Asian American. Today, they tried something a little different: "Harris -- from a multi-racial, immigrant family from the liberal West Coast -- and [...]