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Suzanne Lacy's Stoop Talk: Gender, Labor, and Gentrification

Report back from Between the Door and the Street

Interracial Relationships on TV

Will they ever be common? via Bitch Magazine

The Changing Face of America

Essay and portrait photography via National Geographic

The Racial Dot Map

The most comprehensive map of racial distribution in the United States.

A Conversation About Conversations About Race

Tanner Colby and Baratunde Thurston on interracial friendship via WNYC

Being Friends with White People

A personal essay by Dr. Brittney Cooper via Salon.com

New Film Explores a Long Interracial Marriage

Just the Three of Us by Angela Tucker

"She's like a poster baby for the U.N.!"

And other comments a mother of multiracial children hears often

A short documentary about mixed marriage in the United Arab Emirates

Dear Parents of White Children

An open letter via Huffington Post

If You Ask the Hair Question...

Melissa Harris-Perry panel discusses Reuters poll that says that 40% of white Americans do not have a friend of another race

40 Percent of White Americans Have Only White Friends

New Reuters poll exposes trends in interracial friendships.

Video from Loving Day NYC 2013

Check out the celebration

How to Ask Me about my Ethnicity

via Jezebel.com

Introducing Nayantara Sen

New CBBG Project Associate

Kids React to Cheerios Commercial

And the news that it ignited racist responses

"We Are Not Travyon Martin" Tumblr Examines White Privilege

New Tumblr explores the politics of solidarity.

Photos from Loving Day 2013

Photos from Loving Day 2013 in New York City

Love, No Matter What

TED talk by Andrew Solomon

Inspired by a Cheerios Ad

Crowd-sourced collection of interracial family photographs

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