If you wrote an original romantic screenplay called The Loving Story and the main characters were named Mildred and Richard Loving, that’d seem pretty cheesy. But there’s nothing bogus about the “epunymous” title of an incredibly essential documentary focused on the story of the Lovings, an interracial couple whose union in 1958 led to their [...]
Writers Says If You Want to be Successful, Marry Outside Your Race
October 18, 2012 | Posted by
If you want to get ahead in the world, you should marry outside of your race. That’s according to writer Stephen Marche, who made this case in a provocative essay on Esquire.com that attempts to demonstrate that race-mixing is the key to America’s future. Marche points to a collection of statistics that show mixed-race couples—particularly [...]
Tamera Mowry-Housley Attacked on Twitter
October 13, 2012 | Posted by
Social media platforms are becoming a hotseat for entertainers with ANYTHING to say about the 2012 Presidential Campaign. Most recently, actress Tamera Mowry-Housley got “twacked”—attacked on Twitter–for retweeting a message that had nothing to do with her political stance. On Thursday, while watching the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Representative Paul Ryan, Housley [...]
Interracial Marriages On The Rise In America
April 29, 2012 | Posted by
One in 10 American marriages are between partners of a different race or ethnicity, according to data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report, which examined Census information from 2010, showed that the number of mixed marriages among heterosexual couples has risen since 2000. That year, only seven percent of marriages were [...]
