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What Makes an Interracial Relationship?

Heidi W. Durrow | Posted 05.16.2012

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I'm used to checking "other" to describe myself. Still, imagine my surprise -- not at the recent headline that interracial marriages are at an all-time high -- but that my marriage is included among them.

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Novelists Who Were More Enlightened Than Their Era

Dave Astor | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Women, Stereotypes, John Steinbeck, Wilkie Collins, Novels, Asian Americans, Racism, Alexandre Dumas, Anti-Racism, Biracial, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, African Americans, Books News

The 1800s were of course a time of blatant racism, and many authors reflected that by depicting fictional characters of color in horribly stereotyped ways. Or they omitted those characters entirely, as if the world was populated by whites only.

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Is Drake's 'Re-Bar Mitzvah' A Mockery Of Judaism?

Rabbi Daniel Brenner | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Biracial, Bar Mitzvah, Hip-Hop, Drake, Judaism, Black and Jewish, Sacred Sounds, Religion News

Drake has never been reticent about his Jewish roots. But what does his latest song have to do with bar mitzvah? And how should we react when a video for a song that relates a life of private jets, expensive alcohol, pills and sexually aggressive women is shot in a synagogue?

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Being Brown in the 'Burbs: No Burnt Crosses, but a Few Cross Looks

Melanie Coffee | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Interracial Dating, Racism, Interracial Marriage, Biracial, Post-Racial, Black Voices Life, Bv-Life, Black Voices News

I should have known by the look in his eyes. The middle-aged white man looked at my chocolate self, then to my light-skinned baby and back to me. "Excuse me," he said walking closer. "But is his father white or Asian?"

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Should You Date Outside Your Tribe?

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Nationalism, Ali Binazir, Joseph Campbell, Multiracial Children, Member of the Tribe, Dating and Race, Hapa, Ethnocentrism, Interrracial Dating, Biracial, Tao of Dating, Desi, Dating Outside Your Tribe, Hybrid Vigor, Valentine's Day, True Love, Relationships, Healthy Living News

With Valentine's Day approaching, here's an interesting letter I got recently, applying to both men and women.

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Inspire Yourself

Corey Gaines | Posted 04.10.2012

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There are a lot of people that believe the path is already set for them or they don't have options, but none of that is true. If you want something changed, change it yourself. Don't wait for someone else to come along. Only rely on yourself to get you to where you want to be.

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WATCH: A Look At the Lives of Germany's 'Brown Babies' Of World War II

cnn.com | Posted 11.22.2011

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The effects of a world war, race and identity would be challenging subjects individually, but two documentaries are taking on all three issues at onc...

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Multiracial Students Face Quandary On College Application

nytimes.com | SUSAN SAULNY and JACQUES STEINBERG | Posted 08.14.2011

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But students can now choose from a menu of new boxes of racial and ethnic categories -- because the Department of Education started requiring universi...

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Is Tribalism on the Increase?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

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When I was a college student, I worked at the student newspaper. I was a longhaired, hard-drinking journalist -- a Woodward and/or Bernstein in traini...

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Obama Makes It Official: He's African-American

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's self-designation of himself as African-American on his Census form made what's painfully obvious official.

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Obama Census Choice: African-American

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — He may be the world's foremost mixed-race leader, but when it came to the official government head count, President Barack Obama ga...

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What "Never to Say" at a Job Interview

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 05.25.2011

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Do you have any hot looking daughters? My 27 year-old adult soon still lives at home and I'd do anything to marry him off, or at least have him shack up somewhere else.

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RED the Book: How to Turn Teenage All-About-Me-ism into Altruism

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 11.17.2011

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Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.

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Barack Obama: "Black" Or "Biracial"?

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is discussion now taking place between mostly white editors and producers in newsrooms on how to identify Senator Barack Obama now that he is the Democratic nominee.

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