Multiracial and Multicultural Weddings...Commence Drooling

Dear Readers,

It's no surprise to anyone who knows me that I little black heart weddings. I don't necessarily like to attend them, nor am I a huge proponent of marriage - yes, I know I'm married. No, I'm more of a side-line viewer. I like to watch various TV shows and visit websites that capture all aspects of the wedding experience: the couple's story, the dress, the food, the decor...you name it. I'm especially excited when it's an interracial or intercultural couple because the diversity provides an added component.

One of my favorite sites to drool over is Wedding Nouveau. Below are some highlights of some of those I like the most. Trust me, it was a difficult decision.

You can check out Wedding Nouveau to view more.

Yours,

E

Indian and Finnish

Black and Jewish

Nigerian and Chinese/Vietnamese

Egyptian American

West-Indian Canadian and Canadian

Bengali American and Scottish

Korean American

Vietnamese and Taiwanese

Virginia Hasn't Always Been for Lovers by Phyl Newbeck

Sister, Sister Star Tamera Mowry Weds Fox Correspondent Adam Housley

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Happy couple after tying the know. Love those petals.

Pregnant twin sis Tia shedding tears of joy

The many shades of beauty

More pics at People.com

Happy Mother's Day to Moms of all Cultures Raising Children of all Colors!

Happy Mother's Day Readers!

No Monsters™ is part of our series titled "Proof™". It's our answer to the questions: "Is this your child?" and "Is that your mom?" Sometimes you just have to answer the questions for them.

As far as we can tell (thanks Google!), the following countries also celebrate mother's day on the second Sunday in May (May 8th this year).

Worldwide Celebration Dates on May 8, 2011

The following countries celebrate Mother's Day on May 8:

Anguilla Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Barbados Bangladesh Belgium Belize Bermuda Bonaire Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia Cuba Croatia

Curaçao Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Estonia Finland Germany Greece Grenada Honduras Hong Kong Iceland Italy Jamaica Japan Latvia Malta Malaysia

Netherlands New Zealand Peru Philippines Puerto Rico Singapore Slovakia South Africa Suriname Switzerland Taiwan Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uruguay Venezuela Zimbabwe

We here at EIRIC™ and Made in The World™ are wishing a happy day to those moms around the world who are celebrating today, moms of all cultures raising children of all colors, old time moms, new moms, moms with one, moms with multiple, moms by choice, moms by default, moms who work outside the home, moms who work inside the home, moms who cook, moms who order takeout, those who can spell mom, those who've ever seen a movie with a mom in it, those who like Boys II Men's Mam, Moms Mabley, Mama Mia, Mama Say Mama Sa Mamakusa...and any other moms not captured in this greeting.

People are going to stare and have questions. Why not let your baby answer it? This is a fun multicultural gift for the mommy in your life with a biracial baby.

No Monsters™ is part of our series titled "Proof™". It's our answer to the questions: "Is this your child?" and "Is that your mom?". Sometimes you just have to answer the questions for them.

Source:
EIRIC™
Made in The World™
Google
http://www.mothersdaycentral.com/when/

Breaking News: Multiracial Goldfish NOT as tasty as single race Goldfish

Dear Readers,

We're kinda disappointed that the rainbow coalition Goldfish crackers do not taste as good as the stick-to-our-own-kind yellow ones.

Sadly, we notice and care about these things.

Yours,

E

PBS Documentary Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders - An Anti-Segregation Movement

Dear Readers,

What inspires ordinary people to stand up for justice? This is the question that the PBS documentary Freedom Riders (airing on May 16, 2011) seeks to answer.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders - an interracial group of young men and women who joined together to fight (peacefully) against the Jim Crow laws and segregation - we'd like to say thank you.

Thank you for making our marriage and organizations like ours (EVERYTHING Interracial and Intercultural™ - EIRIC™ and Made in The World™) possible.

God willing, we'll be recapping the documentary after viewing it on PBS on May 16, 2011 at 9pm Eastern.

Thanks,

E

Our "Thirsty" greeting card.

ABC Cancels One Life To Live. Our Tribute to Our Favorite Multicultural or Multiracial "Couples"

Dear One Life to Live:

Oh, how sad we are to see you go. We had a feeling this day was coming, but like a child too old to still believe in Santa, we secretly held out hope.

Taking a trip down memory lane, we'd like to highlight some of our Top 3 absolute favorite mixed-race and/or cross-cultural couples - those who actually are and those we wanted to be.

#3: Matthew Buchanan and Destiny Evans (played by Eddie Alderson and Shenell Edmonds):

Jewish-American Matthew and African-American Destiny are high schoolers who are the best of friends - although some would say (with good reasons) that Destiny is a much better to Matthew than he is to her. During his freshman year, Matthew had a desire to fit in with the cool crowd at school but it was Destiny who thought him that he didn't need a bunch of jerks to validate him. Destiny goes on to support Matthew through his brief paralysis (as a result of a car accident) and his lawsuit against his parents to allow him to undergo an experimental surgery - one that would have been performed by Destiny's hotshot surgeon brother Greg. After Matthew starts to walk again, Destiny reveals that she is in love with him, but he doesn't feel the same way. His heart belongs to Danielle Rayburn - the secret daughter of his Latina lawyer Tea Delgado and her white ex-husband Todd Manning.

Despite not returning her feelings, Destiny remained a good friend to Matthew. Matthew has shown his support for Destiny by standing by her after learning that the people who raised her were her grandparents and not her parents. She would learn later that her brother Greg is her father. 

Earlier this year, Matthew and Destiny kissed for the first time following a series of events in which both felt betrayed by their families.

We hope to have Matthew come to realize how deeply in love he is with Destiny before One Life To Live's final episode.

Do you hear us Powers-that-be?

#2: Bo and Nora Buchanan (played by Emmy-winners Robert S. Woods and Hillary B. Smith): 

Non-Jewish Bo and Jewish Nora were first married in 1995 by none other than the A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop bam boo king (aka Little Richard). Not long after their wedding, Bo's son Drew dies and he becomes inconsolable. Fearing that Bo was starting to feel that he had nothing to live for, Nora lied and told him that she was pregnant. Believing that Bo was shooting blanks, Nora convinced her ex Sam Rappaport to knock her up. Like all good soap opera secrets, nothing stays secret for long. A drunken Lindsay, Sam's ex-wife, publicly blabbed to all who would listen that Nora had slept with Sam. Needless to say, Bo was not pleased. He left her and they were apart for about 10 years - even though he learned that Matthew (yep, the same one noted above) was indeed his child.

Many relationships later (including Nora's brief marriage to Bo's brother Clint - we won't talk about that), Nora and Bo finally got back together and were married in June of 2010.

Both weddings are below for your viewing pleasure.

#1: John McBain and Evangeline Williamson (played by Michael Easton and Renee Goldsberry): 

Irish-American brooding hottie John and African-American classic beauty Evangeline started as "no strings attached" lovers but ended up irrevocably etched into each other's hearts - don't care how it's been written, Natalie is not John's one true love.

 The breakup of John and Evangeline (it went downhill when John chose to rescue Natalie before Evangeline when they were both being held hostage by a madman) left a crack in our hearts that will never fully heal.

One Life to Live, if we could turn back the hands of time, we'd go back to the days when Evangeline and John were still happily in love and you still had a secure place in the ABC daytime lineup.

You will be missed.


*Sources: Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, ABC, about.com

Random TV Interracial and Intercultural Friendships We Love

After 18 years of participating in and leading the band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Kevin Eubanks announced last month that his last day with the show is May 28th. We here at EIRIC are saddened to see one of our all time favorite TV friendships come to an end - at least on television. In honor of this friendship, we'd like to share some of our other favorite TV friendships that we've appreciated over the years. These are mostly friendships from TV shows that are no longer airing new episodes. We'll be doing a few other editions with friendships from current shows.

As always, we welcome your feedback.

Enjoy!!!

Show: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Friends: Jay Leno and Kevin Eubanks
Ethnicity and/or Race: White AND Black


Source: www.ew.com


Show: Full House
Friends: Stephanie Tanner and Harry Takayama
Ethnicity and/or Race: White AND Asian
5 episodes, 1988-1989
- Nerd for a Day (1989)
- Pal Joey (1989)
- Middle Age Crazy (1989)
- Jingle Hell (1988)
- D.J.'s Very First Horse (1988)



Source: IMDB


Show: Rob and Big
Friends: Rob Dyrdek and Christopher "Big Black" Boykin
Ethnicity and/or Race: White AND Black
Reality buddy comedy aired on MTV featuring professional street skater Rob Dyrdek and his best friend and bodyguard, Christopher "Big Black" Boykin.


Show: The Nanny
Friends: Fran Fine and Niles
Ethnicity and/or Race: White Jewish American AND White English
She was the nanny. He was the butler. Together they were Ethel and Lucy with a little twist.



Image source: Mean Street Kids

Show: Scrubs
Friends: Carla Espinosa Turk and Elliot Reid
Ethnicity and/or Race: Latina And White
Hated each other at first because Carla thought Elliot was a stuck up princess. They eventually became best friends.

Show: Designing Women
Friends: Anthony, Susan, Julia, Charlene and Mary Jo
Ethnicity and/or Race: Black And White
After surviving his unfortunate incarceration, Anthony Bouvier took a job as a delivery man for the Sugarbaker Design company.
Probably our favorite group of interracial friends - especially the friendship between Anthony, Susan and Susan's pig. We'll follow up with a special series dedicated to them.


Show: Full House
Friends: Teddy and Michelle
Ethnicity and/or Race: Black AND White
12 episodes, 1991-1995
1. Double Trouble (17 September 1991)
2. The Legend of Ranger Joe (22 October 1991)
3. The Volunteer (29 October 1991)
4. Happy Birthday, Babies: Part 2 (12 November 1991)
5. Bachelor of the Month (26 November 1991)
6. The Devil Made Me Do It (18 February 1992)
7. Girls Will Be Boys (28 April 1992)
8. Be Your Own Best Friend (5 April 1994)
9. A House Divided (17 May 1994)
10. To Joey, with Love (25 October 1994)
11. Super Bowl Fun Day (25 January 1995)
12. Dateless in San Francisco (14 February 1995)

Source: IMDB and www.fanpop.com

Show: Ally McBeal
Friends: Ally and Renee
Ethnicity and/or Race: White AND Black
Roommates. Co-workers. Original BFFs.


Show: Scrubs
Friends: J.D. and Turk
Ethnicity and/or Race: White AND Black
Probably our absolute favorite interracial male friendship.


Show: Any Day Now
Friends: Rene and Mary Elizabeth (M.E.)
Ethnicity and/or Race: Black AND White
Mary Elizabeth, an outgoing white girl, and Rene, a shy black girl, become close friends as they grow up in 1960's Alabama. Their friendship comes to an end, however, when Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) gets pregnant and Rene doesn't support her decision to keep the child and marry her boyfriend.
Thirty years later, the pair resume their old friendship, they reminisce on old times and the events that occurred after splitting up.


*Source: Lifetime

Show: Ghostwriter
Friends: Mixed Cast
Ethnicity and/or Race: Asian, Black, Hispanic AND White
The show is about a very special team that goes around solving mysteries in New York with the help of a very secretive friend: Ghostwriter! Ghostwriter cannot hear, talk, smell, or feel. He can only read and write. He only sees words. No one else can see him but the Ghostwriter team!

We're pretty sure that we're the only geeks who followed this PBS show religiously while it was on. We'd love to hear from you if you have heard of this show. We kinda feel like losers here :).


*Source: Retrojunk