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#CMRS2012 in Chicago
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CBBG will present at the 2nd Biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference - FREE and open to the public
2nd Annual: What Are You?
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Let’s talk about race, ethnicity, and identity. Panelists will start the conversation and we hope you’ll join in.
Voces: Framing Narratives
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Visual artists, historians, and community activists discuss Puerto Rican communities in 1970s New York.
2nd Annual Bed-Stuy PRIDE
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Presented by The Audre Lorde Project's SAFE OUTside the System, an anti-violence program
LOVING DAY Celebration NYC
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Celebrate Loving v. Virginia ~ Free ~ Multicultural ~ Family Friendly ~ Waterfront
Sneak Preview: Black Folk Don't Season Two
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"Sometimes you substitute 'Black' for 'lower class' and they're not the same.
The Loving Story screening with filmmaker Nancy Buirski
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"It's not so much me and Richard, it's the principle, it's the law - I don't think it's right." - Mildred Loving
Identity and Oral History Workshop at Brooklyn Museum
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"What makes you Black?" - Question Bridge
Bridging the Gap: Poetry Showcase
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"Pen to the page, we checkin' all the boxes now!"
Watch & Discuss the groundbreaking 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
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"You think of yourself as a colored man, I think of myself as a man." - John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Watch & Discuss Vin Diesel's short film Multi-Facial
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"They probably think I'm some misogynist homophobic guido." - Vin Diesel
Watch & Discuss the film Something New with sociologist Erica Chito-Childs
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“Where are the brothers?” - from Something New
The Hapa Project: A multiracial identity art project created by artist Kip Fulbeck
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Join a discussion about what it means to be Hapa. Once a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for “half,” Hapa has since been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed racial heritage includes Asian or Pacific Island descent.

Jungle Fever 20 Years Later
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Watch Spike Lee’s iconic 1991 movie about mixed-heritage relationships, Jungle Fever, and hear how three panelists respond to the movie 20 years later.

20 Years Since the Crown Heights Riot of August 1991
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Listen as historians and community members respond to oral history interviews with Crown Heights residents recorded in the 1990s and 2010. What’s changed? What’s stayed the same?

What Are You? a discussion about mixed heritage
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Participate in this discussion about mixed heritage co-sponsored by Loving Day, a global network fighting racial prejudice through education and building multicultural community.

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