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Bay Window takes a look at what it's like to be a
multi-racial person in the Bay Area with Other Colors:
Being Multiracial in America. As our demographics shift,
and we become an increasingly multi-cultural community, what
happens to the blurring lines of racial identity? How does
a person of mixed heritage feel when faced with instructions
to check only one box on the census form? Does choosing one
race seem like a betrayal of the other?
Like Cicily Wilson and Chaney Simms, the biracial daughters
in PBS's An American Love Story, three extraordinary
Bay Area women grapple with questions about their private
and public identities, as they take us on deeply personal
journeys through their lives, struggles and triumphs. Join
us for this provocative search into who we are in the Bay
Area - and who we are becoming
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Barbara Rodgers is the host of the latest
KQED TV9 Bay Window Special, Other Colors: Being Multiracial
in America. In October, 1998 Rodgers hosted KQED's
inaugural Bay Window, a four-part town hall meeting that aired
following each episode of the landmark PBS series, Africans
in America: America's Journey Through Slavery.
She recently moderated Teaching Kids
Tolerance, a Bay Window program in which KQED TV9 convened
parents, educators, clergy and viewers in a live discussion
based on the award-winning PBS documentary, It's Elementary:
Talking About Gay Issues in School.
Barbara Rodgers works at KPIX Channel
5 as a news anchor for the weekend Eyewitness News and a contributing
reporter on "Evening Magazine." Her weekly segment,
"Doin' Good," focuses on the positive
efforts of Bay Area organizations and people.
Rodgers has received numerous honors for
her work and community service, including five Emmy Awards
from the Northern California Chapter of the National Association
of Television Arts and Sciences.
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