Tulsa

Tulsa

I have always loved Tom Hanks. He just seems like such a good guy, onscreen and off. I loved his triumph against the ego in “Cast Away.” Loved his adorable, bumbling widowed dad in “Sleepless in Seattle” (Rita Wilson’s tearful comic bit was...

Bridging the divide

Bridging the divide

A few years ago, as new demographic reports were flush with a growing wave of multiracial youth, I revisited the topic of my roots. My African-American mother and grandmother raised me at a time when identifiable biracial children were still just...