The last regularly scheduled episode of the Loving Project podcast has been released. For the past 12 months, we’ve been conducting interviews with couples in interracial marriages and turning those stories into podcast episodes that illuminate a bit of what it’s like to be in a mulitracial family 5 decades after the Supreme Court struck […]
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On bigotry, racism, and love in a time of hate
Originally posted to Facebook… but some things should be said publicly: I’ve been writing and rewriting this post trying to find words strong enough to condemn the violence that cost lives in Charlottesville yesterday, the growing realization that racism and bigotry aren’t ever going to just die out as an older generation gives way to […]
50 years of Loving
June 12th marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage across the country and paved the way for the much more recent (and long overdue) decision that also made same sex marriage legal. The case of Loving v. Virginia involved a black woman and her white husband who were married […]
How we make The Loving Project podcast (recording gear, audio editing software)
It’s been 50 years since the Supreme Court issued a ruling that overturned state laws banning marriages between people of different races. On June 12th, 1967 the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia, and my wife and I are marking the anniversary by interviewing people in interracial marriages today […]
Saving an audio mixer after spilling water on it
I record interviews, voice tracks, and occasionally some music for the Loving Project and LPX Show podcasts from my home office. And after ten years of use, my aging Alesis audio mixer was starting to go on the fritz, so I picked up a $200 Yamaha MG10XU mixer in December. It has cleaner preamps than my […]
A new chapter
Journalism is just as important in 2017 as it has ever been, if not more so. It’s the job of journalists to hold government officials accountable for their words and actions, to keep the public informed, and to shine a light on subjects that many might otherwise find too easy to overlook. But after spending […]