Podcast appearances and mentions of Lacey Schwartz

In this episode we take look at the documentary Little White Lie by Lacey Schwartz with special guest unicorn Jesi Smith It's a double feature here at Biracial Unicorns! Not only are we reviewing Lacey Schwartz's documentary, Little White Lies, we also have company!  Jesi Smith of So Smith Photography joins us on the show to discuss adoption, identity, and her experience growing up Jewish.   Little White Lies, written, directed, and produced by Lacey Schwartz, tells her story as a mixed-race black WOC…that didn't know she was mixed. Lacey lived most of your young life believing she was a white jewish girl from Woodstock, New York until, she entered high-school where here darker complication and curly hair raised questions amongst her black school mates. Schwartz's documentary tells the story of family secrets, identity, and self-discovery. We hope you watch it and discuss it with your favorite Unicorns. In this episode we discuss: The similarities between Lacey's experience and Jesi's experience  We ask the question, “What are you?” We ask what identity looks like for someone in an interracial adoption How others perception of us impacts how we identify ourselves  What is passing? Is it considered passing if you're not aware you are a BIPOC?   We ask Jesi to hang out with us for our Happy Place *hint… it's good to be together again. Jesi was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs before attending university in Ohio where she met her husband, and starting their journey as an Air Force family. She is an internationally published photographer who specialized in weddings, birth and lifestyle family portraiture currently residing in southern Oklahoma. She is a mother of three, an activist for the LGBTQ community and an avid traveler. You can reach out to her view instagram @sosmithphotography or at her website at: _ https://www.sosmithphotography.com/2020/12/4/i6pi1q8fikhzfcfw6bjg3fu2yb0sjy_ Thanks to Josef Scott of Citizens of Tape City for our theme music and Dollipop Art for our podcast artwork - you can find her on instagram @dollipop.art. We want to hear from you! If you have a question you'd like us to answer or a topic you'd like us to cover on the show, drop us a line at biracialunicorns@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at (505) 585-1808. Like us on facebook or follow us on instagram to join in on the discussion - we're @biracialunicorns. We're now on twitter as @biracialmagic so catch us there too. If you'd like to support the show with some cash money visit us at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/biracialunicorn Please review us wherever you get your podcasts or even better tell your friends to listen. :D Find out more at https://biracialunicorns.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This month's toolkit we're focusing on identity and appearance. Sometimes your appearance can say a lot about who you are, your history, and your culture but often times for mixed race folx in particular, our appearance may not reflect those things. This month's resources explore some of those ideas. Join us this month (June 2021) or anytime by working through the following resources: Watch: Little White Lies - a documentary by Lacey Schwartz (available with Amazon Prime or various online platforms for rent) Read: Caucasia by Danzy Senna - fiction novel - check your local library Read: When Half is Whole: Learning from the Stories of Multiethnic Asian American Identities by Stephen Murphy-Sigematsu - nonfiction book - check your local library Discuss: Discuss with a family member what your racial /ethnic identity is and what theirs is Thanks to Josef Scott of Citizens of Tape City for our theme music and Dollipop Art for our podcast artwork - you can find her on instagram @dollipop.art. We want to hear from you! If you have a question you'd like us to answer or a topic you'd like us to cover on the show, drop us a line at biracialunicorns@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at (505) 585-1808. Like us on facebook or follow us on instagram to join in on the discussion - we're @biracialunicorns. We're now on twitter as @biracialmagic so catch us there too. If you'd like to support the show with some cash money visit us at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/biracialunicorn Please review us wherever you get your podcasts or even better tell your friends to listen. :D Find out more at https://biracialunicorns.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Oh hey! Love documentaries? Wanna hear us recap them epically? You've come to the right place! Join Khris, VJ & Penrose every other Monday for some laughs and unbelievably true stories! Lacey Schwartz has loving parents that do everything they can to ensure she has a stable and fulfilled life. When a Little White Lie shifts her parent's relationship and her sense of self altogether, Lacey is left all alone to come to her own terms with a dark family secret. https://linktr.ee/alldocdup Make sure to follow the podcast on Twitter (@alldocdup) & Instagram (@alldocduppod) for funny memes, nonsense and clues/clips of the documentaries we plan on reviewing! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE!!!! Follow the gang on Twitter! Khris: @its_khris VJ: @vj_burton Penrose: @penroseeames

Oh hey! Love documentaries? Wanna hear us recap them epically? You've come to the right place! Join Khris, VJ & Penrose every other Monday for some laughs and unbelievably true stories! Lacey Schwartz has loving parents that do everything they can to ensure she has a stable and fulfilled life. When a Little White Lie shifts her parent's relationship and her sense of self altogether, Lacey is left all alone to come to her own terms with a dark family secret. https://linktr.ee/alldocdup Make sure to follow the podcast on Twitter (@alldocdup) & Instagram (@alldocduppod) for funny memes, nonsense and clues/clips of the documentaries we plan on reviewing! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE!!!! Follow the gang on Twitter! Khris: @its_khris VJ: @vj_burton Penrose: @penroseeames

Before we introduce our picks, we quickly shoehorn in one last point about last week's Three Identical Strangers...This week's top picks include Aaron Sorkin's historical legal drama The Trial Of The Chicago Seven, and Najwa Najjar's Palestinian road trip festival hit Between Heaven And Earth. We discuss the utterly bonkers documentary The Imposter, in which an Algerian-French young man in Spain claims to be a 16-year-old Texan, who'd been missing for 3 years, and Little White Lie, the story of director Lacey Schwartz who grew up in a white family and was not aware that she was a half black until she went to university and her mother came clean about her African American biological father. We explore the pitfalls of affirmative action and the somewhat problematic utilisation of a Black identity by someone who'd been raised as white.  As usual, comments and feedback welcome via Twitter @Mydylarama

Castina Charles is a poet and activist; both of her passions are fueled by her drive to educate, to make people understand different perspectives — including her own as a black woman in modern America. In this week’s podcast, she reads poems that are at once playful and pointed. She also talks about the Women’s Empowerment Conference and March she organized, which included Christine Ahn who led a women’s march across the Korean DMZ, and Lacey Schwartz who made the documentary, “Little White Lie,” about being raised in a Jewish family only to discover at 18 that her biological father was a black man. Charles makes politics personal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What if, as a child born into a white Jewish family, anytime someone remarked about your skin color, a story was told about a distant Sicilian grandfather? Even if it was obvious that wasn't the whole story? Lacey Schwartz talks about what it's like to live in an alternate universe of knowing-not knowing your own secret.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Some filmmakers get their starts late, and some filmmakers get their starts early. Our guests on today’s roundtable fall under the latter. Since 2015, Sundance and Adobe have held the Sundance Ignite Fellowship a year long program for 18-to-25-year-old emerging filmmakers from around the world. Their fellowship kicks off with a free trip to the Sundance Film Festival, where they are paired with a Sundance mentor and attend special Sundance Ignite events that advance their films and careers. For the rest of the year, the fellows will work with their mentors, attend select Sundance Institute programs, enjoy eligibility for internships, and receive additional creative and professional development opportunities as they develop their craft. The fellows also receive a complimentary subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud,and lets not also forget that they have a pretty sweet shot at getting their films into Sundance at some point in their burgeoning careers. Joining us today are four short filmmakers who did just that: Matthew Puccini and Tyler Rabinowitz with Lavender; Crystal Kayiza with Edgecombe; and Vasilis Kekatos with The silence of dying fish. Together with mentor Lacey Schwartz we talk about the benefits of fellowships like the Ignite Program for young filmmakers and how you can be accepted to opportunities like this yourself.

Be’chol Lashon fosters positive, pluralistic, multicultural expressions of Judaism that embrace the ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity that has characterized the Jewish people throughout history up to the present. Learn more about the challenges facing Jews of Color, and how we can work to make our community more inclusive. Lacey Schwartz is the Director of Outreach North America for Be’chol Lashon, and CEO of the production company Truth Aid, which produces multi-media content to affect social change. Lacey directed, wrote, and produced Little White Lie, an award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary about dual identity and family secrets, available on iTunes and Amazon.

In this final episode of “Where Do You Exist?”, three New Yorkers share their personal stories. Comedian, activist and author Baratunde Thurston relives the discovery of family secrets; Writer, director and producer Lacey Schwartz tells us her experience learning the truth about her identity; and a special guest speaker, entrepreneur and Harlem Capital venture partner John Henry, joins us in the studio to describe the struggles his family faced growing up.

On The Gist, the market for “how to survive a shooting spree” videos shows how far we’ve strayed in dealing with gun violence.    Interracial marriage on a national level has only been legal for 50 years, after the landmark Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia. Anna Holmes and Lacey Schwartz are two of the minds behind The Loving Generation, a video series by Topic.com on identity and dynamics within multiracial families.  In the Spiel, it’s a no-brainer: Ban civilian ownership of the AR-15, and fewer will die. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, the market for “how to survive a shooting spree” videos shows how far we’ve strayed in dealing with gun violence.    Interracial marriage on a national level has only been legal for 50 years, after the landmark Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia. Anna Holmes and Lacey Schwartz are two of the minds behind The Loving Generation, a video series by Topic.com on identity and dynamics within multiracial families.  In the Spiel, it’s a no-brainer: Ban civilian ownership of the AR-15, and fewer will die. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of “Now What?” tells a story about family secrets, race and identity. It takes place in the little town of Woodstock in upstate New York where Lacey Schwartz grew up with her parents Peggy and Robert.  She went to the local schools and celebrated her bas mitzvah at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation. With her darker skin tone and curly hair, Lacey always looked different than most of her friends. When she was a teenager Lacey found out the truth about her identity. She made a film about her childhood called “Little White Lie.” I went to visit Lacey at her home in upstate New York where we talked about life lessons and the power of denial. “Now What?” is produced with help from Allison Bernstein and Rafaella Gunz.

How do we come to terms with the lies our families tell us? Are we really an extension of our parents? How do we define our identities if we aren't? This week’s episode is dedicated to finding personal truth, inspired by the film "Little White Lie" by director Lacey Schwartz. The film is a personal documentary about the legacy of family secrets, denial, and the power of telling the truth. Schwartz was accepted to college as a Black student, a decision based solely on a photo she submitted with her application. Lacey didn’t openly acknowledge her black identity with her white family until her biological father's death forced her to confront her mother about the past. Elisa talks with Lacey about family secrets, dual identities, and the power of being honest with yourself and those around you.What are your Strong Opinions? Let me know! Instagram: @popculturepirateTwitter: @popcultpirateHashtag: #SOLHpod #StrongOpinionsLooselyHeld See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lacey Schwartz is a woman whose personal and professional journey of race and religion has won attention across the country. She grew up white and Jewish in predominantly white, Woodstock, New York only to learn after entering Georgetown University that her biological father was Rodney Parker, an African-American friend of her mother. Parker, a legendary New York City college basketball scout was featured in a bestselling basketball book, Heaven is a Playground, by Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander. Lacey Schwartz wrote, produced, and directed a one hour documentary, Little White Lie, that tells her fascinating story. “I started making this film when I was in my mid-twenties, when I was living in what I considered a racial closet,” she said in a March 2015 interview on Conversations with Allan Wolper. “I was out in the world identifying with being black but I was still going home to my white Jewish family and identifying myself as white. I realized at that point that I

Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz stops by to discuss her film 'Little White Lie'.

Noted author and psychotherapist Sarah Brokaw interviews documentary filmmaker Lacey Schwartz about her shocking family secret, which she details in her 2014 documentary “Little White Lie.”

Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz always had the darkest skin in her nice Jewish family. Her documentary Little White Lie reveals the reason for that. She tells Kim Masters about revealing her family's drama in her new PBS documentary.

Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical household in Woodstock, NY, but her story is far from ordinary. Raised with noticeably dark skin within a white, Jewish family, Schwartz uncovers a family secret that leads her on a personal quest to examine the big issues of race, identity, and belonging. Coming at a moment when the political dialogue on race has reached a fever pitch, Sundance Institute Film Forward participantLittle White Lie confronts a complicated upbringing and asks the question of who we are and what makes us the people we become.

Lacey Schwartz visits The Context of White Supremacy. Ms. Schwartz is a non-white female with a White mom. She - like President Obama - is an alumnus of Harvard Law School and a documentary filmmaker. We'll investigate her 2014 film, Little White Lie. The project explores Ms. Schwarz deceptive childhood. Her White mother (Peggy Schwartz) insisted that her dark skin tone was the result of her "swarthy," Sicilian grandparents. She was in college when she finally confronted her mother and got the truth. Her birth was the product of her mother's extramarital affair with a black male. Her White father regarded this as the "ultimate betrayal;" Lacey's parents later divorced. We'll ask about her "White" childhood and episodes where Whites impugned her membership in the White club. We'll also see how she was treated by black people before and after her epiphany. #InterracialRelationshipsAreSad #CowBell INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE: 564943#

We speak to Antoine Hunter, Artistic Director and Founder, Urban Jazz Dance, about DEAF LOUDER: The 2nd Bay Area Deaf Dance Festival this weekend, Friday, August 8 and Saturday, August 9 at 8pm; Sunday, August 10 at 4 pm at Dance Mission Theatre in San Francisco. DEAF LOUDER proudly presents a festival that celebrates deaf culture. There will be dance, poetry, song and rap by deaf and hearing performers. Starring Def Motion from London, Michelle Banks, Fred Beam, Joey Antonio, Rosa Lee, and Antoine Hunter. Other performers include James L. Taylor the 3rd, CODA Brothas, Sister Master, Half N Half, Deaf ASL singer Tonique Hunter and poet Joy Elan Sledge.Tickets: $25  For a discount use the code: “DeafLouder” (for an $18.00 ticket at Brown Paper Tickets); $12 for children 10 and under). For groups of 5 or more contact Ms. Stella Adelman 415-826-4441 dancemissiontheater@yahoo.com  There will be a special workshop Saturday with Michelle Banks at EBCPA in Richmond and Sunday from 12-2 there will be dance workshops at Dance Mission and a conversation witht the artists. Visit http://www.antoinehunter.blogspot.com/ Antoine Hunter is an African American Deaf and Hard of Hearing Choreographer, Dancer, Dance instructor, model, actor and poet. He has performed and taught all over USA and all over the world such as, Rome, London, Cuba, Africa. He also has performed with Savage Jazz Dance Company, as dance artist/performer/jazz instructor. He is a faculty member at EBCPA, Dance-A-Vision, Youth In Arts, Shawl and Anderson Dance Center, Ross Dance Company, just to name a few. We close with an interview with director, Lacey Schwartz whose film Little White Lies closed the SFJFF this Sunday and now is screening a few more times. Visit Aug. 7 (PARK 7 p.m.), Aug. 8 (RAF 3 p.m.): www.thelittlewhiteliethefilm.com or sfjff.org and 415-621-0523.