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Help Research Skin Cancer in African Americans When my children were younger, I would slather them in sunscreen before taking them outside to play. My husband told me that I didn’t need to worry about sunscreen because they had inherited melanin from him, and that melanin would protect them from the sun naturally. I love [...]
Today we celebrate Juneteenth. What is Juneteenth? It is the oldest African-American holiday, celebrating freedom and honoring the memory of former slaves. You might know that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 and wonder–why do we celebrate on June 19th? The answer is that not all slaves knew they were [...]
We’ve tried a lot of different natural hair care products in our home over the years in an effort to find what works best for my biracial daughter’s natural hair. While all products work differently on each individual, I highly recommend natural products and have put together a list of our favorite hair care products. [...]
Birthing A Skin Color Perhaps because my first child was born with a light complexion, even more so than my own, concerns surrounding skin color were not paramount during my first year of parenthood. Underhanded comments, questions of when the darkening would stop, or horrific labeling never occurred. She was allowed to exist in her [...]
Swedish Official Cuts into Horrific Racist Cake I DON’T HAVE WORDS FOR THIS. Jezebel reports that a Swedish official cut into a racist cake depicting a stereotyped Black African woman in order to demonstrate the horrors of female circumcision. If that isn’t exasperating enough, there were a slew of onlookers laughing and happily taking pictures while guests [...]
Teaching Kids About Racism Somewhere very early in my first pregnancy I began to feel the inklings of the tension. I knew way back then that there would come a day somewhere in the far off future when my child would be approached in a not-so-cool way by another person about her biracial parentage. I [...]
BLACK GOLD – Esperanza Spalding This wonderful video was shared recently in our Facebook open forum and it was too fabulous not to share here. Please enjoy and share this beautiful and empowering message to our children, ”YOU ARE BLACK GOLD”.
We recently started a series on Multicultural Familia called Reader Q&A. You, the readers, can send in your questions (anonymously, if preferred) to be published. Our readers and writers will respond with their best answers and hopefully shed some light on your questions about race, religion, parenting, relationships and more. We hope that this new series will help [...]
Racial Profiling & Interracial Relationships “Will my White husband be able to sympathize and empathize with our biracial son if he is a victim of any racial iniquities?” I thought of this question last month, and upon asking Joseph his opinion, he answered, “I’m not sure because I’ve never had to deal with that. Yet, [...]
Acknowledging the Disparities In late January, I was on a business trip to east Texas. If you have never been there, let me say that east Texas is not, in general, an area of great economic diversity and wealth. Far from it, in fact; in many ways, that part of the country is one of [...]
Trayvon Martin – Where’s the Justice? I had hoped to get through this year without hearing something of this nature. Recently, it seems we are writing more and more about the injustices that face people of color. It is this type of crime that makes me afraid for my mixed children who are Half-Black and Half-Mexican American. Trayvon [...]
A Look at Black History We all learn stories about Black heroes like Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and George Washington Carver; but there are so many more stories from Black History that should be shared. African-Americans represent a diverse group of people with a rich and varied history in the United [...]
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