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Farming With Ghosts: David 'Mas' Masumoto On Learning A Family Secret
David 'Mas' Masumoto says he farms with ghosts. On his family's organic peach, nectarine and grape farm south of Fresno, California, Mas says the lab…
3 years, 4 months ago
MIXED!: W. Kamau Bell’s Family Explores the Mixed-Race Experience in New Film ‘1,000% Me’
W. Kamau Bell has centered conversations about race in much of his work as a comedian, author and TV host. But when Kamau, who's black, and his wife …
3 years, 5 months ago
MIXED!: A Psychologist and Mixed-Race Teen Offer Advice To Parents For Raising Strong Multiracial Kids
Parenting is already a challenge, but it can be even more complicated when you’re raising a kid with a different racial identity than yours or your p…
3 years, 5 months ago
MIXED!: Author Cherríe Moraga on Her ‘Mixed Blood’ Chicana Heritage and Embracing Discomfort
Half-and-half. Cream and coffee. Almost every mixed-race family develops their own, sometimes bizarre, metaphors to explain their kids to the outside…
3 years, 5 months ago
MIXED!: Educator Joemy Ito-Gates on Why Ethnic Studies Matters
Bay Area Teacher on Growing Up 'Multiracial Japanese American' — and Why Ethnic Studies Matters
“Woman. Daughter. Adoptee. AIDS Orphan. Hapa. Japanese…
3 years, 5 months ago
MIXED!: 'Can't You Be in the Black Struggle and Be Multiracial Too?' Late UCSB Professor On Challenging the One-Drop Rule
Our series MIXED!: Stories of Mixed Race Californians, continues with a wide ranging conversation with the late UCSB professor Reginald Daniel. He pa…
3 years, 6 months ago
MIXED!: 'Jump Higher, Spin Faster': Olympic Figure Skater Tai Babilonia on Her Rise to Fame
Olympic figure skater Tai Babilonia and her skating partner Randy Gardner rapidly ascended figure skating’s ranks to become World Champions in 1979. …
3 years, 6 months ago
MIXED!: Rapper Guap on Growing Up Black and Filipino in Oakland
Even if he’s not always recognized as part of the Asian-American community, Oakland-born rapper Guap is fiercely proud of his Filipino roots. On the …
3 years, 6 months ago
MIXED!: Mixed-Race Californians Share Stories of Joy and Complexity
Identity is always complicated, and for multiracial folks who straddle many identities, it can be isolating. It can also be invigorating and rich to …
3 years, 6 months ago
Proven Schizophrenia Treatments Keep People in School, at Work and off the Street. Why Won't Insurance Companies Cover Them?
Have you ever heard someone calling your name, but then you look around and no one’s there? Or you feel your phone vibrate, but actually, it didn’t. …
3 years, 6 months ago