CSUN to Host Teen Multiracial Summit
To promote better understanding among teenagers from different racial groups, Cal State Northridge on Saturday will host the 10th annual Kaleidoscope Conference and Multiracial Teen Summit.
The conference, “Building Bridges: Racial Harmony 2000,” will address numerous race-relations issues, including biracial and multiracial identity, social reaction to mixed-race marriages, internalized racism and ways to promote racial harmony.
Scheduled speakers include Brian Harris, teen founder of the group Friendship Sees No Color, Ramona Douglass, president of the Assn. of MultiEthnic Americans, and Maria Root, editor of “Racially Mixed People in America and the Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier.”
The session runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Grand Salon of the University Student Union, 18111 Nordhoff St. General admission is $50; couples, $75; students 18 and older, $25, and students 13 to 17, $20. Child care will be provided for children 3 to 12 for $10. For information, call (310) 302-9370 or (310) 836-1535.
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