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Comic and writer Alex Barnett is the White, Jewish husband of a Black woman (who converted to Judaism) and the father of a 6-year-old, Biracial son. Join him and his guests each episode as they discuss the issues that confront multiracial people and multiracial families (including the dynamics between members of the same family who are of different races).

Within the Multiracial Community, Alex is active as a performer and advocate.  Alex was a featured performer at the 2012 New Orleans Loving Festival, the 2015 Mixed-Remixed Festival in Los Angeles, and the 2016 Blend Conference at Cornell University.

Alex is the co-founder of Multiracial Media (http://multiracialmedia.com/) a website that showcases the voices of the Multiracial Community.

Alex also is the co-creator of the comic strip, The Bronze Panther, about a four-year-old, biracial superhero.

Alex has performed at clubs, colleges and venues throughout the country.  He's appeared on the Katie Couric Show, been featured on Sirius/XM Radio’s “Raw Dog Comedy,” and NBC’s EVB Live, and in VH1.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and CNN.com.

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Psychology & reducing race-related stress, with Riana Anderson, Ep. 67

May 29, 2016

Ep. 67: Riana Anderson is a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Applied Psychology and Human Development Division (APHD). Her current fellowship is with Dr. Howard Stevenson in the Racial Empowerment Collaborative (REC), which centers on cultural pride, coping and parenting, culturally specific parenting...

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Multiracial and multicultural community advocacy with Glenn Robinson, Ep. 66

May 22, 2016

Ep. 66 - Glenn Robinson is a White guy.  He's married to a Mexican woman, and they have 2 Biracial and Bicultural kids.

Glenn is a devoted advocate for the multiracial and multicultural communities.  He aggregates and curates content for several websites aimed at the issues confronting these communities.  Those websites...

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Afro-Latina, transracially adopted by White farmers, coping with tragic accidents and physical disability, and writing a memoir, with author Lorie Tensen, Ep. 64

May 8, 2016

Ep. 64: Lorie Tensen is an author.  She's also "bionic." It's not hard to see why.  Having been dealt a number of challenges in life, she's rebuilt herself stronger than ever before.

She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 7, 1966. The result of an affair between a married, Black detective and a foreigner: a woman...

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Confronting racism through global travel, biracial life in Canada, and transracial adoption, with Jordana Manchester, Ep. 63

May 1, 2016

Ep. 63: Jordana Manchester is Biracial (White mom, Black dad).  She was raised by her her mother and her White adoptive father (he married her mother when she was 4 years old and they had her younger brother a year later). So she was raised in an all-White household. 

After several years in Winnipeg, where she suffered...

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