The Story

Producer Zak Rosen talks with auto worker Gloria Lowe  and others in Detroit about the new culture they see emerging and how they are shaping it.

Melissa Lowery is the mother of two black girls growing up in a predominantly white suburb of Portland, Ore.

Russell L. Goings, the African-American pioneer of Wall Street and one of the founders of Essence Magazine, has now added another feather to his hat. He has created an epic poem called “The Children of Children Keep Coming: an Epic Griotsong.” Sketches of black history from the famed painter and collagist Romare Bearden complement his work. As the artist was dying of cancer, Romare Bearden made Russell a promise to use a portfolio of artwork in some way. It would take years before Russell decided what to do with this tremendous gift. Also - infiltrating a white supremacist group.

With an estimated five percent of all marriages in America now involving people of different races, Melanie McFarland and Dave Knopes are among a small but growing number of racially mixed couples.