Two Stars Join Forces for Mixed-Race Korean Kids – Digital Chosunilbo
Hat tip to Jae Ran! “American football star Hines Ward has invited the star of a new TV drama for ABC primetime Moon Bloodgood to help…Both faced hard times as children, both triumphed over adversity to become celebrities. Now the two have come together
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by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free.
We hand the reins over to our listeners in this episode – it’s a special all listener feedback [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
And I thought CrackSpace was bad. The latest addition to the social networking universe is NiggaSpace. Ridiculous.
I won’t link to them because I really don’t want to give them any Google juice, but here’s the description from their site:
Welcome to NiggaSpace.com
You definitely don’t have to be black to join! We [...]

by guest contributor Philip Arthur Moore, originally published at TheThink
The start of the NBA season is just around the corner, which means more opportunities for me to find news that’s either related to (1) black people, (2) black people and their white friends, or (3) racist fans.
On Thursday night Houston Rockets center Dikembe Mutombo [...]

Babel – Movies – Review – New York Times
“The languages used by the astonishingly diverse cast include Spanish, Berber, Japanese, sign language and English. The misunderstandings multiply accordingly, though they tend to be most acute between husbands and wives or parents and children, rather th
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Oprah’s Here for All – New York [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Ha! Props to taz at Sepia Mutiny for calling this weeks ago.
In a move that will surprise absolutely no one, Angelina Jolie is rumored to be adopting a child from India, where she is currently filming A Mighty Heart, or as I like to call it, A Mighty Bad Bronzer Job. From [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Before I get started with this post, a few clarifications. First, I don’t think that Madonna is the evil, attention-hungry, Angelina-copycat that others are making her out to be. I’m sure she was guided by the best of intentions when it came to this adoption. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t buy [...]

by guest contributor Nina
To call this an interview would be an insult to the very word. Oprah did not challenge Madonna on any of the complex issues associated with the adoption of David Banda, and let so much go unexplained. And then Madonna further exploited her newly adopted child by flashing his picture on the [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Let the hysteria begin! The media has yet another set of “miracle” twins to obsess over. An Australian black/white mixed woman with a white husband recently gave birth to twins Alicia and Jasmin, girls that The Daily Telegraph refers to as “one black and one white.” The paper also claims that “experts [...]

Strong man knocked down by notice – TheStar.com
Thanks Angry Asian Man! “At the height of his powers Mack was, pound for pound, the strongest man in the world. He stood 5-foot-4 and weighed 176 pounds. He once bench-pressed 500 pounds…As of Nov. 15 there will be a padlock on his door. And so an era [...]

by guest contributor Tariq Nelson, originally published at Tariq Nelson
There have been soooo many articles about Hispanics/Latinos (particularly Latinas) and their interest in Islam. Nothing else to write about? Why not yet another article on Latin Muslims? One has to wonder why so much emphasis has been put on Latino Muslims in the media lately.
I [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Did any of you see yesterday’s episode of Oprah, where she interviewed Madonna about the recent adoption controversy? I only had time to watch half of it on the old Tivo, but I plan on posting my thoughts tomorrow after finishing the show tonight. In the meantime, here’s a very critical take [...]

Lucy’s ancient bones to tour US – BBC
“The skeleton of the fossilised, 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy, will go on display in the US, Ethiopian officials say… the discovery of Lucy represented “the true story of Ethiopia being the cradle of human civilisation and the home
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The Exotic – Sepia Mutiny
“We can [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
UPDATE 10/26/06: I completely forgot about the incident earlier this month where the Corker campaign actually darkened a photo of Ford, in the same manner as that infamous Time magazine cover that darkened OJ Simpson’s mugshot. Thanks dcase for the reminder! Also, the latest in Ford racialiciousness (thanks Tariq for the tip!) [...]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free.
THE DANGERS OF POSITIVE STEREOTYPES
In this episode of Addicted to Race, we share with you the recording of [...]