Taressa Stovall of the Montclair Times on Transcending the quest for racial identity:
Some bi/multi-racial people feel they have a choice of colors, options for selecting how they define their racial/ethnic identities. Between a decades-long movement to create a separate census category and an increasingly blended United States population bursting the seams of traditional definitions, the issue is on more peoples’ minds than ever before.
Charles Michael Byrd, who describes himself as being “of black, white and Cherokee heritage,” made a name as the editor and publisher of Interracial Voice Web site from 1995 to 2003. Byrd has taken his personal quest for identity beyond physical labels to a whole ’nother level.
His website, which helped inspire me to launch The Multiracial Activist, can be found at http://www.interracialvoice.com
Charles Michael Byrd (Charukrishna) will discuss, read from and sign copies of “The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White: From Mulatto Pride to Krishna Consciousness,” on Thursday, Oct. 4, 7 to 8 p.m., in watchung booksellers, 54 Fairfield St., Watchung Plaza.
If you are near Montclair, stop by and see Charles. Tell him I sent you.
Relevant links:
http://www.parentpaper.com/link2pubs/montclairtimes/page.php?page=15841