The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is an informational digest of news, events, new websites and other information of interest to individuals who perceive themselves to be biracial/multiracial, interracial couples/families and the transracial adoptee community. Published irregularly, with special alerts as news items warrant. The Multiracial Activist Newsletter is registered with the Library of Congress, Washington, DC – ISSN: 1522-6905. Past newsletters and alerts are archived at https://www.multiracial.com/newsletter.html.
October 1, 2003
Editor, James A. Landrith, Jr.
https://www.multiracial.com/
email: editor@multiracial.com
As a new feature of The Multiracial Activist Newsletter, selected news links will now be forwarded to the mailing list on a regular basis, as they are added to the news sections of the website. Should your email program truncate or distort the urls, these links are also available at:
https://www.multiracial.com/newstuff.html
The latest news links are available below:
The mulatta on film: from Hollywood to the Mexican revolution
by Cedric J. Robinson and Luz Maria Cabral (irr news)
http://www.irr.org.uk/2003/september/ak000010.html (October 2003)
Prop. 54 author undaunted by polls
by Katherine Corcoran (The Mercury News)
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/6895798.htm
(September 30, 2003)
Californians to Vote on Collecting Racial Identity Data
by Molly Peterson (VOANews.com)
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=1C4DEDFD-B3DF-4DB4-
82B1F1C93B663497 (September 30, 2003)
Supreme Court to review old Wilkes-Barre death row case
(NEPA News)
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?
newsid=10244772&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6 (September 30,
2003)
All in the (mixed-race) family: a US trend
by Mary Wiltenburg and Amanda Paulson (The Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0828/p03s01-ussc.html (September 28,
2003)
Thicker than water
by Ellen Tomson (Pioneer Press)
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/6860754.htm (September
28, 2003)
No single policy for racial data
by Jim Sanders (The Sacramento Bee)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/7499767p-8441894c.html
(September 28, 2003)
A successful interracial union shows world can unite as one
by Dan and Lonnie Locke (The Olympian)
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030920/living/104687.shtml
(September 20, 2003)
Supreme Court to rule on rights of Métis
(CBC News)
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/09/19/metis030919 (September 19, 2003)
White professor speaks about black america
by Charles Edward Scott Jr. (Daily Illini)
http://www.dailyillini.com/sep03/sep18/news/stories/news_story01.shtm
l (September 18, 2003)
Finding love amid anguish in Peru jail
(Reuters)
http://www.chron.com/CDA/umstory.mpl/world/2106422 (September 18,
2003)
When Racial Discrimination Is Not Just Black and White
by Brent Staples (The New York Times)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?
res=F30613F83B5F0C718DDDA00894DB404482 (September 12, 2003)
Iraqi girlfriends capture GI hearts
by Larry Kaplow (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0803/29irmarry.html (August 29,
2003)
Israeli law targets 'mixed' families
by Joshua Mitnick (The Washington Times)
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030818-122330-9856r.htm (August 18,
2003)
Yours in Struggle,
James Landrith
Founder, Editor & Publisher,
The Multiracial Activist
and The Abolitionist Examiner
https://www.multiracial.com
https://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/