Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural News

On Wednesday, Dec. 11, all Ferndale School District employees will be attending our first symposium sponsored by Ferndale School District's Multicultural Advisory Committee.

Shoppers are being urged to give the gift of life this Christmas and register to become a bone marrow donor.

South Africans flocked to houses of worship for a national day of prayer and reflection to honor former President Nelson Mandela, starting planned events to commemorate the liberation struggle icon that will culminate in what is expected to be one of the biggest funerals in modern times.

My biracial daughter loves the blonde version of Disney's Rapunzel. She expresses dislike for her own curly brown hair, wishing she could make it long like her idol.

In 1966, two aspiring filmmakers cast four young actors in a low budget TV series about a fictional band.

It seems that interracial dating has become more prevalent than ever. It's not just in our neighborhoods, its on our TVs, in the movies and even in national marketing ad campaigns, depicting interracial couples and families.

For over a year there has been an entry for "Polygamy" in the Gospel Topics section of lds.org that briefly mentions post-manifesto polygamy.

Former Toronto Star Foreign Editor Jimmy Atkins was born and raised in South Africa on the wrong side of the colour bar.

On Friday morning CNN hosted Richard Stengel, an Obama administration nominee , to discuss the President's connections to the late Nelson Mandela without disclosing Stengel's pending State Department position.

Last week, I took a few vacation days to spend time with my daughter Kendra, who is home visiting for Thanksgiving and an early Clark-family Christmas dinner.

"Faced with an immense problem, the National Party came up with an immense solution.

The current face-plant fiasco in Lunenburg is just the latest example of how wrong-headed our politicians are about race.

THE END OF CAPITALISM? - Rob Urie on the future of capitalism; James Kilgore on the strange politics of prisons in America; David Macaray digs into the history and influence of the US Chamber of Commerce; Louis Proyect surveys the films of Steven Soderberg; Lee Ballinger on political ballads; Jeffrey St. Clair recounts the history of eugenics in ... (more)

South Africans began mourning the death of their first black president Nelson Mandela, who died in Johannesburg late yesterday, while leaders paid tribute to his life.

Comedienne and writer Akilah Hughes' latest YouTube video "Meet Your First Black Girlfriend" pokes fun at awkward interracial dating moment and it's hilarious from start to finish.

If you happen to be in the area, you can catch the world premiere of "Ballad for Trayvon Martin for Orchestra and Jazz Quartet" Thursday and Friday night at Richardson Auditorium on the Ivy League campus.

Things have changed a lot since my childhood, when if you missed the Christmas special on TV, you had to wait an entire year to see it again.

U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby wondered aloud Wednesday whether he would be the first federal judge to rule on a state's marriage law since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act earlier this year.

"Ariza gives me the best advice that I ever had -- about marriage, my baby, life."

The December show "True Colors - Celebrating Unity through Art and Culture" is a multi-cultural exhibit of art expressing "who we are" as a community of many different cultures and beliefs.