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On April 4, 2012, BHS hosted a poetry showcase featuring Nichole Acosta, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Adrienne Lyric, and Tara Betts. Organized by Nichole Acosta, poets from Bridging the Gap used their voices, words, history, and music to discuss mixed heritage, racial identity, and gender issues.
 
via Rookie: young women growing up biracial
 
What does this 1967 movie have to do with President Obama?
 
"For Asian-American Couples, A Tie that Binds"
 
Check out this map of common last names in the United States via National Geographic.
 
An interactive map showing the distribution of certain ethnic heritages around the US.
 
A 1920 map of Brooklyn showing where various ethnic groups were living.
 
The Pew Research Center released new data on The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender.
 
Photos from BHS's screening & discussion of Vin Diesel's short film Multi-Facial
 
Check out the latest article in The New York Times' Race Remixed series:"For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture than Color" 
 
Artist Kip Fulbeck engaged a lively audience in talking about his Hapa Project and other works.
 
Photographs of the post-screening discussion of Spike Lee's Jungle Fever.
 
Photographs of a discussion about how we remember the Crown Heights Riot of August 1991.
 
"Sometimes you substitute 'black' for 'lower class' and they're not the same." - from Black Folk Don't
 

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