Kayci Baldwin has served as the President of Teen Project RACE for four years, advocating for Multiracial youth on many fronts. Kayci is a Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholar and recipient of the 2009 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. As a high school senior, she is busy counting down the days until college acceptance decisions arrive!

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Comedian Sunda Croonquist was born in Paterson, New Jersey to an African-American mother and Swedish father. Inspired by her father's career as a musician and having a stage/pageant mom always having her involved in the arts, Sunda knew she wanted to be an entertainer at a very young age. �?�¢??My father was always proud of writing his own �?�¢??patter�?�¢??, patter is when a musician talks to the crowd between songs,�?�¢?? she explains. �?�¢??And I was just like okay�?�¢?�?�¦ that�?�¢??s it! That�?�¢??s what I want to do. I want to talk to people on stage.�?�¢??

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Today we read some listener e-mails that have touched & taught us more about this Mixed experience.

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Author of Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008) Editor of Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs (Beacon Press, May 2008) and The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 1997)

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This won't be a live show, but some listeners requested that we schedule it anyway so that they can keep the chats going! Enjoy guys & we'll talk to you in a couple weeks!

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This won't be a live show, but some listeners requested that we schedule it anyway so that they can keep the chats going! Enjoy guys & we'll talk to you in a couple weeks!

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Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D., born in Manila, Philippines, grew up in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of California at Riverside in 1977 with degrees in Psychology and Sociology. She subsequently attended Claremont University in Claremont, California receiving her Masterâ??s degree in Cognitive Psychology in 1979. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1983 with an emphasis in minority mental health. Dr. Root resides in Seattle, Washington where she is an independent scholar and clinical psychologist. She has been in practice for over 20 years. Her general practice focuses on adult and adolescent treatment therapy, which includes working with families and couples. Dr. Rootâ??s working areas of knowledge are broad with emphasis on culturally competent practice, life transition issues, trauma, ethnic and racial identity, workplace stress and harassment, and disordered eating. In the early 1980s, she established a group treatment program for bulimia that grew out of her dissertation work. Subsequently, she trained other professionals to recognize and treat people with a range of disordered eating symptoms. She continues to treat people with eating disorders. Dr. Rootâ??s practice also includes formal psychological evaluation. She works as a consultant to several law enforcement departments. She also works as an expert witness in forensic settings performing evaluations and offering expert testimony in matters that require cultural competence and/or knowledge of racism or ethnocentrism. Dr. Root is a trainer, educator, and public speaker on the topics of multiracial families, multiracial identity, cultural competence, trauma, work place harassment, and disordered eating. She has provided lectures and training in New Zealand, England, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States for major universities, professional organizations, grassroots community groups, and student organizations. Dr. Rootâ??s publications cover the areas of trauma, cultural assessment, multiracial identity, feminist therapy, and eating disorders. One of the leading authorities in the field of racial and ethnic identity, Dr. Root published the first contemporary volume on mixed race people, Racially Mixed People in America (1992). Including this book, she has edited two award-winning books on multiracial people and produced the foundational Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People. The U.S. Census referred to these texts in their deliberations that resulted in an historic â??check more than oneâ?? format to the race question for the 2000 census. Dr. Root is past-President of the Washington State Psychological Association and the recipient of national and international awards from professional and community organizations. She is also a clay artist, and maintains a website about her work at Primitiva Pottery and Tile.

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Melting Pot MomsTM is a national organization bringing together families of different ethnicities and cultures, in an effort to create a diverse and nurturing environment for our children, while promoting multiculturalism in our communities. All moms who value diversity are welcome!

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Carleen Brice is author of the novels Orange Mint and Honey (which was optioned by the Lifetime Movie Network)- a #1 Denver Post best-seller and Essence Magazine Recommended Read - and Children of the Waters, which One World/Ballantine will release in June 2009. She also wrote Lead Me Home: An African American�¢??s Guide Through the Grief Journey (HarperCollins), and edited the anthology Age Ain�¢??t Nothing but a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife (Beacon Press, Souvenir Press). Her book Walk Tall: Affirmations for People of Color sold over 100,000 copies and was in print with traditional publishers for 10 years. It is now available from iUniverse. In 2008, she won the Breakout Author of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards Show and in 2009 she received the First Novel Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She is a finalist for the 2009 Colorado Book Award in literary fiction, and is a two-time finalist for the Colorado Book Award in nonfiction (for Lead Me Home and Age Ain't Nothing but a Number). She lives in Colorado with her husband and two cats where she gardens and works on her third novel, Calling Every Good Wish Home.

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Mike directed the film 'What Are You? A Dialogue on Mixed Race' which was shown at the 2009 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.

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What was it like putting your two (or three or four) different races and cultures together to celebrate your special day?

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This is the audio for the Mixed in Hollywood panel at the 2009 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. Featuring host Elliott Lewis and panelists Angela Nissel, Karyn Parsons, Joe Anaya and Jenny Rich.

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Mulatto Patriot, or MP as he is also known, is not what you would typically expect of a hip-hop artist. Hailing from Chicago, IL, MP is a more than just a talented and multi-faceted producer, engineer and entrepreneur. He is an active member in his community where he engages and educates local youth with the same fervor and appreciation that attracted him to hip-hop so long ago. Born and raised in Hyde Park, on the Southside of Chicago, MP grew up listening to Jazz (Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson) as well as the electric and eclectic sounds that permeated the urban streets and defined the city. Drawing from moody blues to soulful house, Chicago hip-hop is known for its distinct musical influences that have produced a bevy of artists and styles not easily defined and refusing to be pigeonholed. MP's affinity for music began very early in his life helping his father, a professional pianist. By the age of 8, MP began to learn the process of setting up gigs. As he grew older his love for Jazz naturally evolved into his love for hip-hop. Understanding that music business can be a difficult and tedious trade, he enrolled at Full Sail Real World Education in Orlando, FL. There he attained the knowledge and art of composing a greater quality of music while also learning the fundamentals of the business. At the age of 20 he bought his first turntables and shortly thereafter began to DJ at in-stores, club dates and a weekly radio show at WKRP Rollins College where he dedicated his time to incoroprate independant hip hop artists. With a mass of opportunities before him in Orlando, MP decided to return to Chicago and rep his home. Armed with newfound knowledge and a desire to work, MP was quickly hired to engineer projects for other artists often leaving him with little time to focus on his own work under his own production house, Mulatto Patriot Productions which he launched in 2003. Faced with the pressure of what to do, a sudden twist of fate changed his destiny to run Mulatto Patriot Productions as a full-time career. Even though music was his lifelong passion, it wasn't until a near fatal experience that served as the launching pad for this young artist's career. At 27, MP's appendix ruptured, landing him in a coma for over six weeks. What started as a minor stomachache landed him in the emergency room fighting for his life. "12 hours later and I wouldn't be around" recalls MP. Now, at the age of 29, MP prepares the debut release of Sonic Visuals, a producer's album featuring MCs from across the U.S., Canada and Germany. Artist features include Ras Kass, Casual (Hieroglyphics), Pumpkinhead (Brooklyn Academy), Eternia. Pugs Atomz , Anacron, Decay (Molemen)and DJ Intel to name a few. He believes his music is diverse, reflecting different styles while still keeping the vibes that got him to love hip-hop in the first place. "At the end of the day there is something for everyone [on the album]"says MP. "I feel there is a lot to take from this album, but beyond diversity in the styles displayed and in the selection of beats, the obvious feeling you get is that a lot of work and time was put into making the album. I want people to know that this is 100% Chicago Hip-Hop."

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Multiracial surveys, lightskinned criminals and Mixed American Idols!

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Kimberly McClain DaCosta is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies at Harvard. Professor DaCosta received her doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy program at Yale, is a recipient of a fellowship from the Advertiserâ??s Educational Foundation, and was a 2004-2005 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Professor DaCosta is interested in the intersections of cultural ideas of race and family and their practical effects. Her book Making Multiracials: State, Family and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press) examines how multiracialism emerged as a topic of public discussion in the last quarter century, and how â??multiracialâ?? became a recognizable social category and mode of identification.

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Bio: Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2003. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychology and Child Development at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her main areas of research interest are multiracial issues, and the intersection of multiculturalism and positive psychology (including such constructs as hope and well-being). Dr. Teramoto Pedrotti is half Japanese American and half White and grew up in Virginia, Colorado, and the Bay Area in California. She now resides with her husband and young biracial son on the Central Coast of California. Synopsis Psychologists today must be knowledgeable about unique identity issues that may influence therapy with multiracial clients, due to their growing numbers in the population. Clinicians must be aware of current theory, research, and strategies that will be useful in developing more accurate conceptualizations of multiracial clients.

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from the 2008 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival!

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Various topics discussed.

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Meet the Curly Girl with the amazing salon, Devachan, where you and your curls will be worshipped!

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Michelle Clark blogs at: http://www.passingplecker.blogspot.com/

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Another great listener suggestion! What kinds of resources are there (or aren't there) for Mixed people in academia?

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Maija DiGirorgio is a Mixed comedienne, filmmaker and extremely brave soul who made 'Bitter Jester,' which can now be found in its entirety on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/hollywoodoutlawmovie

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Kaleemah Bint Yusef Al Quraysh is a listener who wrote in asking us whether we thought the Mixed experience is different with a Black mother. She shares her thoughts on her experience with this, as well as with being half Black and half Arab.

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Another Mixed bag episode - you know how that goes: ANYthing goes!

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Join us to discuss your thoughts/reactions to the Obama inauguration!

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Being Mixed leaves you with interesting enough stories - but add in the nomadic lifestyle of a military family and it makes for a fascinating Mixed Chicks Chat episode!

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The Mixed Chicks take your questions, read your emails and hold forth on a Mix of topics today.

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It's been an amazing year for Mixies. What will the New Year bring?

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How do you celebrate the holidays in a Mixed family?

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Tiffany Jones is a Black and White actress/singer born and raised in Michigan and now living in New York City. These days she spends most of her time pondering and pontificating on the White/Black biracial experience on her YouTube vlog Mulatto Diaries and putting together a documentary tentatively titled "Part of Me is Them." This year, she has enjoyed playing her first biracial character in several readings of the stage play Neighbors by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. After spending the first 27 years of her life identifying as Black, Tiffany had a "light bulb" moment one day and became mildly obsessed with proudly claiming her whiteness and cultivating a solid biracial identity. The Mulatto Diaries chronicles this process while also providing a place for other biracial people to share their stories as well. Check it out at...http://www.youtube.com/user/tiffdjones.

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Our guests today have been harassed about dating men of a different race.

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Why the heck did your parents name you 'Heidi'? What the heck is a 'Fanshen'? Discussing the Mixed experience and unusual names.

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A guest and frequent listener, Ehav Ever, writes: being mixed, and vocal about it in a public way sometimes opens one up to weird people who stalk or seem to be confrontational. It is like there are people who insist that their view of reality is universal law, and they have to find someone to try and confront. There is also the element of people who seem to not be able to leave people alone once there is a disagreement. It is like those people who want to try and post comments on a blog they don't agree with even though their comments are getting deleted. I have run into this when I have come across Hebrew Israelites. A good number of them seem to want to be confrontational with me because of my background and because I have no chip on my shoulder like they do. I have also met some who seem to want to think that Jews like myself think we are better than them since we are legally Jewish and most of them are not. I have also had friends with mixed backgrounds who felt like there were people who hounded them because of how they chose to identify themselves. On some level some of this has been touched on in other episodes, but it needs its own treatment since it often causes people to either have to explain or defend themselves against people who they don't owe the attention.

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We're hoping at this point we'll know the results of the election. Please join us to discuss the future of the U.S. & how the new President figures into it!

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Dawn Wilkinson is an award-winning writer/director and a graduate of The University of Toronto Womenâ??s Studies & African Studies Programmes and The Norman Jewsion Canadian Film Centre Directorâ??s Lab and Short Dramatic Film Program. Wilkinson has directed music videos and four short films including Girls Who Say Yes (00), Instant Dread (98) and Dandelions (95). She was the apprentice to Norman Jewison on The Hurricane and to Ernest Dickerson on Showtimeâ??s Our America. Dawn Wilkinsonâ??s first feature film Devotion (05) won The Tony Stoltz Completion Award at the 2004 Reel World Film Festival, The Star! Audience Award at the 2005 Reel World Film Festival, and Best Feature at the San Francisco Urban Kids Film Festival. Devotion (05) recently had its US TV Premiere on Global Cinema TV produced by Lead Dog Entertainment for the Black Family Channel and Colours TV. Dawn has also taught film and video production workshops for the Toronto Film School, the NFB/United Way Action For Neighbourhood Change Summer Video Project, and the Toronto International Film Festival for Childrenâ??s Special Delivery Program. Dawn also wrote and produced a segment for BETâ??s award winning HIV Testing Day Show. She is currently associate producing the NFBâ??s filmmaker in residence project at St. Michaelâ??s Hospital in Toronto and developing a TV series with Barna Alper productions.

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Jennifer Lisa Vest s a mixedblood feminist poet and philosopher born and raised in Chicago. She has had her poetry published in five journals and five anthologies and has performed at poetry readings and protests throughout the country. Her first book of poetry NAMES was published by a small press, Indigenous Speak, in Berkeley, CA in 1997. Throughout the 90s, Jennifer organized a number of mixed race arts collectives and produced mixed media mixed race arts performances in San Francisco and Berkeley. IN 2005 and 2006 she completed three poetry CDs: Camping at A distance, Ancestor Count, and Wonder Woman. She has a website at www. Mxdmessages.com and a blog, â??Mixed Messagesâ?? at http://mxdmessages.blogspot.com. Videos of her performing her poetry can be found on youtube under username mxdpoet Dr. Vest is also Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando where she teaches Native American philosophy, African philosophy, and feminist philosophy among other things. Her research areas include cross-cultural philosophy, African philosophy, Native American, and mixed race feminism.

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Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC), is the only organization in Southern California that caters to the needs of multiracial people, people involved in interracial relationships, and transracial adoptees.

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This is another 'mixed bag' episode. So close to the election, our conversation was of course about Obama, McCain, Biden & Palin. Let us know your thoughts on the blog after you listen: www.mixedchickschat.typepad.com

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This week we talk to Carmen Wolf. Carmen is a 38-year-old stay-at-home mom to 13-month-old Miles. She always dreamed of becoming a mother through adoption, since watching a docudrama in the '70s or '80s about a large family of mostly adopted kids with special needs. Carmen and her husband Mike started the process of becoming parents in October of 2006 and their son Miles was placed in their arms by August of 2007. They came to transracial adoption organically: After receiving several calls about babies that ultimately didn't work out for various reasons, they got word of an African American baby boy born in Ohio. Though Caucasian, Carmen and Mike had always had an open mind about their future child and - lo and behold - along came Magnificent Miles. The decision was a no-brainer. Off they flew from California to Ohio. That's when the biggest, best adventure of their lives began and continues to this day.

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The Mixed Chicks chat about what it means to identify oneself by one's color: is it empowering? offensive? deluded?

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How do different races and cultures approach questions of etiquette?

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How does where you live affect your Mixedness?

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What gives away your Mixed-ness? What makes them say "What are you?"?

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The Touchâ?? is Janeâ??s fourth short film. It earned a fiscal sponsorship from Women Make Movies (WMM) and was awarded the Panasonic Digital Filmmaker's Grant, as well as receiving a grant from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, and in-kind support from an overwhelming number of companies. It makes itâ??s debut at the Northampton Independent Film Festival in November. â??Carrieâ??s Choiceâ?? Janeâ??s third short, was also sponsored by WMM and granted the Panasonic Digital Filmmakerâ??s Grand Prize Jane Clark â?? Writer/Producer/Director/Editor grant. It played a brief festival run winning best womenâ??s issue film, nominated for best short and was a finalist in the USA Film Festival, before going into distribution through Intermedia, Her previous short film, "A Host of Daffodilsâ?? has played 15 film festivals, won two awards, and was nominated four times for Best Short film, and is in distribution with Big Short Films. Her first short, "Dog Gone" was one of the "program director's pics" at the 2003 Wood's Hole Film Festival and is being distributed by Petstyle.com. Jane began her career as an actor and had a recurring role on TVâ??s "Chicago Hope." She attended the 2002 Sundance Institute producerâ??s conference and gained producing experience for her short films, by producing a string of successful theatrical showcases and a sold out charity run of "Burn This" in Los Angeles.

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"Pig Candy. Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home" is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young man, Lise Funderburg, author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes to understand his rich and difficult background and the conflicting choices he has had to make throughout his life." Lise Funderburg is a child of the '60s, a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood. As a child, she couldn't imagine what had made her father so strict, demanding, and elusive; about his past she knew only that he had grown up in the Jim Crow South and fled its brutal oppression as a young black man. In her forties, her father is diagnosed with advanced and terminal cancer -- an event that leads father and daughter together on a stream of pilgrimages to his hometown in rural Jasper County, Georgia. As her father's escort, proxy, and, finally, nurse, Funderburg encounters for the first time the fragrant landscape and fraught society -- and the extraordinary food -- of his childhood.

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Elliott Lewis is a freelance television news reporter in Washington, DC. His clients have included CNN Headline News, BET, Associated Press Television, WJLA-TV, and the Washington bureaus of Tribune Broadcasting and Hearst-Argyle Television. Prior to moving to the nation's capital in 1999, Elliott's career took him to a number of cities around the country. He has worked as a reporter for WKMG-TV in Orlando, WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, KPTV in Portland, KGTV in San Diego, and KTVN in Reno. Elliott attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, where he studied Spanish and Communications. When not in class, he could be found working at the campus radio station, the university�¢??s public relations office, and the college of agriculture�¢??s radio news service. Elliott is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and served on the NABJ Board of Directors from 2003-2007. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a leading journalism think-tank located in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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More on Watermelon Sushi: Michiko Johnson looks Asian. She says she's Black. A hip-hop head, soul sistah who greases on greens and cornbread, Michiko is outspoken about her African roots. She adores her younger sibling, April, whose physical features are more African than hers. But April speaks fluent Japanese and eats only vegan meals with chopsticks. Their Japanese mother, Junko, immigrated to the U.S. when she married an African American soldier. Now, Junko's mother, Kazuko, who came to live with her divorced daughter, lies near death. Michiko is summoned home to San Francisco from her Los Angeles digs leaving behind her rastafarian musician boyfriend and a host of bad habits. Alone with her sick grandmother, Michiko is about to receive the most shocking news of her young life. Meanwhile, April, a rigid corporate attorney, is dealing with some trauma of her own; a discovery that she's pregnant by her married lover. Told against the backdrop of the rising rap music scene of the early 1980's, Watermelon Sushi hopes to feature old school rappers like Chuck D, KRS-I, Afrikan Bambaata, X-Clan, Soul Sonic Force, Kool Mo Dee, LL Cool J and others. In 1998, Starwheels Productions began shooting a 120-minute feature film in Los Angeles. The tale of two Afro-Asian sisters is dubbed "She's Gotta Have It" meets "Secrets and Lies" at the "Joy Luck Club". Shot on 16mm (with black and white scenes depicting the parents' past in Japan), the film is equal parts comedy and drama. Due to financial difficulties, production ceased after 7 days. A 4 1/2-minute trailer was edited and has been screened in several American cities.

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Get a sneak peak at what the Mixed Chicks will present at the first Blogging While Brown conference.

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Eric is a Haitian and Jewish comedian living in New York City.

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The Wayans Family is known for outstanding comedy, and Kim Wayans boasts an impressive track record with her acting, writing, producing, and directing. Kim made her debut in the 1990s, starring in the groundbreaking sketch-comedy show In Living Color, with brothers Keenen, Damon, Shawn, and Marlon. Most recently, Kim and her husband, Kevin Knotts, both worked on the TV sitcom My Wife and Kids; Kim as a writer, producer, and director, and Kevin as an actor and writer. Kevin Knotts is an actor and writer. In addition to guest starring on and writing for My Wife and Kids, Kevin has penned three screenplays, one with his wife and writing partner, Kim Wayans. They live in Los Angeles, California. Soo Jeong lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Marie Lamba is author of the humorous young adult novel What I Meantâ?¦ (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2007), which Publisherâ??s Weekly has dubbed â??an impressive debut.â?? It features a biracial teen as the hero in a mainstream story. She also recently completed writing Over My Head, a YA novel about a biracial teenâ??s awkward yet gutsy search for true love. Currently Marie is at work on a third novel entitled Drawn, about a teen artist who moves to England in pursuit of â??normal,â?? only to find sheâ??s unwillingly carrying on her familyâ??s freaky psychic tradition. In addition to her fiction writing, Marie has written and published more than 100 articles, including features in national magazines such as Garden Design, Your Home, and Sports International. Her most recent piece, â??Plotting a Novel Group,â?? appears in the February 2008 issue of Writer's Digest. She is also writing an essay for an anthology about multicultural mothering, which will be published in January 2009 by publisher Wyatt Mackenzie. Marie holds a BA in English and in Literary Art (an individualized major combining writing and fine art) from the University of Pennsylvania, and resides in Doylestown, PA.

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More musings from the Mixed Chicks

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Don't miss the reportage on the historic success that was the inaugural Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. Find out who did what and who made it a hot hot ticket!

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One of our festival guests will join us to talk about the creative process and how being Mixed has informed his/her storytelling.

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The Mixed Chicks discuss their favorite past episodes, what they have learned, how they have changed and what's to come in the next year of Mixed Chicks Chat!

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May is Mixed Experience History Month and we're doing a recap of the celebration that's been happening over at Lightskinned-ed Girl (www.lightskinnededgirl.typepad.com).

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Joseph Anaya (www.josephanaya.com) o-created, wrote and produced VH1�?�¢??s first scripted series STRANGE FREQUENCY. Roger Daltrey hosted the critically acclaimed anthology series rooted in the mystique and mythology of rock & roll. Starting in Hollywood with the ground-breaking production company Propaganda Films, Anaya post supervised movies, music videos and commercials, working with directors such as Spike Jonze, Antoine Fuqua, and Mark Romanek. Anaya also directed and/or wrote the award winning short films SHORT ON SUGAR, SMART CARD, and A HOLLOW PLACE which have bee n see on television in the U.S. and around the world as well as at all the major film festivals including: Sundance, Toronto, Miami and Los Angeles. Anaya also was selected as a directing fellow for the Independent Film Project�?�¢??s (now Film INDependent) 2004 Director�?�¢??s Lab, an intensive 8-week directing program.

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What messages do bi and multiracial people get about their bodies and how does it differ among races and cultures?

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How does being bi or multilingual affect your life as a Mixed person?

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Nate Creekmore won the Charles M. Schulz award for College Cartooning as part of the Scripps Howard Foundation's National Journalism Awards (twice), won the Associated Collegiate Press Cartooning Competition, created storyboards for a Randy Travis music video, does freelance illustrations for the Nashville Scene newspaper and San Francisco based Level Playing Field Institute, illustrated 2004-2005 yearbook for Lipscomb University, is working under a development deal with Universal Press Syndicate and he once stayed awake for 3 days in a row.

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'Passing for White' is a familiar concept to Mixed folks, but what about when we choose to identify as Black? Are we 'Passing for Black'?

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Lively discussion on defining Affirmative Action and whether multiracials should benefit.

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Maya Lilly �?�¢?? Writer/Producer/Performer - Born on the corner of Art and Activism, Maya has worked ardently to combine the two for most of her life. During her BFA years at The Juilliard School in Acting, Maya was awarded an Udall Congressional award (2002) for her work using the arts as environmental change. Her film, Karma, Confessions and Holi premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, and her film Ten Seconds to Midnight premiered last month at the Kodak in collaboration with the Elevate Film Festival, for which she is also a proud Producer. Her original show MIXED has been garnering critical praise in its 2-year tour around America, based on interviews with people who check �?�¢??Other�?�¢??. For more information about Maya, please go to www.MAYALILLY.COM. This show is dedicated to her stellar parents, Mom and �?�¢??Bubby.�?�¢??

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In this version, Ehav calls in 10 minutes into the episode. As a Jew of mixed ancestry (Sephardic-Spanish, African American, Senegalese, French, etc.) Ehav has an interesting view of issues that affect Jews, Israelis, African Americans, Americans, religious people, non-religious people, etc. Any topic is game.

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As a Jew of mixed ancestry (Sephardic-Spanish, African American, Senegalese, French, etc.) Ehav has an interesting view of issues that affect Jews, Israelis, African Americans, Americans, religious people, non-religious people, etc. Any topic is game.

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Becky Sarah's daughter adopted a Chinese child, and now Becky is exploring not only what it means to be a grandmother, but also what it means to be a grandmother to a granddaughter of a different race.

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The sequel to the very popular and enlightening 'White Daddies with Mixed Kids' What are the differences and similarities?

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How is being a darkskinned Mixed Chicks different than being a lightskinned one?

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Mixed babies sent to U.S., community secrets, the evolution of the Mixed Chicks

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Do parents of different races have different parenting styles? Does the style have to do with race, culture or other factors?

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Our guests this week are performing the world premiere of "So Fresh and So Clean" a new hip-hop theater piece that combines comedy, spoken word poetry and beatboxing. (Imagine the Smothers Brothers meet Rahzel combined with that book of Truly Tasteless Jokes that you used to carry in your backpack during grade school.) Dr. Cornel West says that, â??Joeâ??s work offers a fresh perspective that is both honest and insightful.â?? When Queen Latifah first saw Josh perform, she immediately exclaimed on the mic, â??That kid is fresh!â?? â??So Fresh and So Cleanâ?? Directed by Benjamin Byron Davis ONE NIGHT ONLY! Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 8pm bang Comedy Theatre 457 N. Fairfax Hollywood, CA 90036 (1 bl North of Canter's) www.bangstudio.com box office: 323-653-886 Tix: $10 Street parking or $5 paylot NE corner Fairfax & Rosewood

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A discussion on Barack Obama and why he did or did not win the primary.

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By popular demand - the Mixed Chicks discuss finding the right shades, mishaps with make up and product advice.

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The NAACP is bothered by the fact that a Chinese man was chosen to design a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial sculpture. What do you think?

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Discussion of Multiracial current political evnts and future political goals.

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Rain Pryor is a spokesperson, award winning actress, singer, writer, comedian, and, producer. She speaks around the country on themes of multicultural diversity, family, and Judaism. Rain, is also an MS Ambassador. Her commitment to fighting for a cure of MS has her hosting and speaking around the world to educate families and friends about MS treatment options and therapies in honor of her father Richard Pryor.

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Darby Li Po Price is the Producer of "Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians," based on his dissertation "Mixed Laughter: Mediating Multiracial Identities in American Ethnic Comedy" Watch the trailer at: http://www.entertainingdiversity.com/CrossingTheLine/

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What's a Mixed Chick to do for the Holidays?

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Mixed Chicks talk about the influence of grandparents on mixed peoples.

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Join us for a talk with Kim Etheredge and Wendi Levy, Creators of Mixed Chicks hair products

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What gives you the right to call yourself Mixed?

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Do you use it? SHOULD you use it? Can a mixed person be an 'N'?

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This is for those whose Mixed identity is masked inside their bodies and minds.

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This is a request from sistuhs and brothuhs that get asked all the time 'What are you?' even though both of their parents are of the same race.

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You know you hear it and maybe you've said it. What does it mean?

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So popular we had to add another episode.

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We use the 'that's 'your people' expression a lot. What does it mean for Mixed folks?

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Fanshen and Heidi read letters they have written to inspire and caution young girls who are mixed.

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A mixed man or a woman? Or do you vote republican? Let's discuss politics.

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Halle Berry â??s pregnant â?? a book Heidi's reading about a biracial woman in history, whatever else is on our minds.

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Code switching in the Mixed community.

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Bonjour! Ciao Bella! Hej! What a gwon? Hola!

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Laura's paintings use portraiture, pattern, and decoration to address intersections of identities. Her recent work has focused specifically on multi-racial, â??hapaâ??, and Asian American subjects.

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Join us for a discussion with Mixed Lesbians on how their identities interact and conflict with the rest of us.

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Join us for a discussion of issues affecting Mixed men.

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Do companies make colors for your skin tone?

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The Mixed Chicks talk with the ladies of Topaz - a social network for biracial women of African descent.

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What are you?

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How does your mixed racial identity affect your relationships with White men?

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The Mixed Chicks discuss dating and loving Black men.

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Interview with two Mixed Chick filmmakers: Jennifer Sharp and Lia Johnson, Director and Producer/Actress of "I'm Through With White Girls, The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks"

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We'll discuss the challenges White mothers face in raising their mixed children.

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The Mixed Chicks discuss the role of fathers in shaping the identities of their mixed children.

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The Mixed Chicks discuss hair and its meaning in the mixed community.

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Mixed Chicks host a special guest: Rayme Cornell, host of: Real Savvy Moms. We'll discuss all aspects of motherhood and in paticular the challenges of raising mixed children.

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Heidi and Fanshen talk in intimate detail about the challenges and triumphs of exploring identity through the mixed racial and cultural experience.

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In this talkcast you will meet your hosts: Heidi Durrow and Fanshen Cox; learn about Heidi's current projects and discuss the creation of a Mixed Peoples History Month.

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