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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. This one, of lovely Inara, comes from reader Hadifha S.
Got cute kids? Send your pics to team@loveisntenough.com.

I need to spend some more time digging into this piece, which was e-mailed to me this morning, but did anyone else catch John Cloud’s article on mixed-race children in Time?
Americans like answers in black and white, a cultural trait we confirmed last year when the biracial man running for President was routinely called “black”.
The [...]

written by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, crossposted from Heart, Mind and Seoul
Imagine you recently started a job you absolutely love.  The manager to whom you report is kind, friendly, accepting and respectful.  Though you’re not exactly sure of each and every project that you’ll be working on, you feel good about the work you’ve done [...]

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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. This one comes from “an enthusiastic reader and occasional commenter,” Mr. Fed.
Got cute kids? Send your pics to team@loveisntenough.com.

Sorry to those of you who have been trying in vain to reach this site since yesterday afternoon. New Demographic was having some server problems that took down this blog, plus Racialicious and Race in the Workplace. Look for gratuitous cute kid pic and the Thursday open thread later today.

Sorry for the late post today.
Crossposted from What Tami Said
So, I’m all het up about a slight to black, natural hair. What else is new? But I swear, I would stop writing these posts if people would quit demonizing black hair and disseminating incorrect information about it.
 
What’s got me steamed this time? I was reviewing [...]

Head over to Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan’s To Loosen the Mind blog. She has served up some wonderful posts over the last weeks, including one on “Individual vs. The System.”
But, here’s what’s been ticking me off lately: the act of calling out racism and oppression, only to have people say things like, “Well *I* [...]

written by Jennifer; crossposted from Mixed Race America
In [Friday's] New York Time’s movie section they are promoting the short films (animated and live action) that are nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. And the still that they used is of Steph Green’s The New Boy.
The still looked so familiar…and then I remembered. Somehow, through some google [...]

What’s up?

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Reader Brigitte sends this shot of her little “Peanut” and says, “His interests include Thomas the Tank Engine, perfecting the ‘Obama’ fist jab and dirt–though not necessarily in that order.”
Got cute kids? Send us their photos and we will feature them in the [...]

written by Liza Talusan; crossposted from To Loosen the Mind
To my children:
I didn’t write to you on the day that Barack Obama became the Democratic candidate. I was afraid to believe there might be a chance.
I didn’t write to you on the night he became the President-Elect.
Fears of what could happen between then and 1.20.09 consumed [...]

Danielle Belton at The Black Snob has written a beautiful, truthful article: “On Little Black Girls, Beauty and Barbie Dolls”:
Along time ago at a kitchen table in an all-black, middle/working class neighborhood in St. Louis, Mo.’s North County a young Danielle Belton, age five, loved to draw and color more than anything in the world. [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I have a question I am hoping to get some help on.  There is currently a full on war at our house in trying to select our 4-year-old son’s school for next year.  We have two sons, the older (4 yr old) was adopted as an infant from Guatemala and the younger is from [...]

It’s Thursday, which usually means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic…unless the ARP editor (me) goofs up in loading said pic and nothing shows up. Sorry about that. Reader Danielle K.’s little one is certainly worth the wait! Danielle writes: “[This is] our little guy running around in Center City Philadelphia. He wants [...]

What’s on your mind?
UPDATE: Is anyone following the Miley Cyrus controversy?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Disney teen idol Miley Cyrus has been accused of taunting and mocking Asians by making slant-eye poses in a personal photograph with her friends.
A snapshot of Cyrus, 16, best known as the star of the Disney Channel show “Hannah Montana”, and [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Just a final reminder that my one-time-only, 5-part tele-course starts TOMORROW…
Diversity Career Success:
How to Take Your Organization From Culturally Clueless to Diversity Dynamo (and Skyrocket Your Own Career While You’re At It)
If you’re involved in any way with your organization’s diversity efforts – whether you’re the Chief Diversity Officer or simply a [...]

crossposted from What Tami Said
Regular readers of [What Tami Said] know that Chris Rock, once one of my favorite comedians, is on my s*** list for the growing misogyny in his stand-up act. That’s why I’m a little nervous about Rock’s latest project: “Good Hair,” a documentary about the business of black hair. Rock weighs the [...]

written by Anti-Racist Parent contributor Lucie
Relationships are hard work. They are made especially hard by the differences we bring to the table.
Being a white woman in a relationship with a Black man, with three Black sons between us, is difficult. Contrary to what many believe being in an interracial relationship does not, by itself, magically [...]