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Research on Post-WW II Mixed-Race Children
Photo credit: ©Julie Skarratt
Research on Post-World War II Mixed-Race Children of Germany
Alexis Clark, author, and free-lance journalist is passionate about uncovering the history of mixed-race children born to African American soldiers and German women in post-World War II Germany.
BGCS has shared her articles on Mabel Grammer and the Brown Babies for The New York Times and The History Channel, respectively (see links below).
She would love to interview those that fit the criteria of being a “mixed-race child born to an African American soldier and a German woman” 
in post-World War II Germany for her book research.
For background information, Ms. Clark has provided her bio, as well as the links to the articles she has written on the subject matter.
If interested, please contact her directly. She will be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Civil Rights in Postwar Germany to Present
The Civil Rights Act was signed 50 years ago in the White House in Washington DC on July 2nd, 1964. Two Afro-Germans, Jeannine and John Kantara, husband and wife living in Germany, were asked to write about the state of civil rights in Germany for the Morgan State University‘s Winter 2014: Morgan Global Journalism Review on civil rights. Their contribution is the featured article in the Review and is a must read for anyone interested in the historic as well as the present-day experiences of people of color in Germany.
Mischlingskinder – What Civil Rights Means to Mixed-Race Germans – Civil Rights in Postwar Germany to Present. To read please click HERE or on the cover image:
MGJR-Aufsager from Kantara Films & Documentaries on Vimeo.
Jeannine Kantara is an activist and co-founder of the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland – ISD-Bund eV (the Initiative Black People in Germany) and the black German magazine afro-look. She has written for the Die Zeit, a national weekly newspaper, as well as the daily newspaper Tageszeitung. She is also a contributing author to Black Berlin – The German metropolis and her African diaspora in the past and present.
John Amoateng Kantara is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, specializing in science and technology. He has been recognized by the German Academy for Technological Sciences, won the prestigious George-von-Holtzbrink Prize for Science Journalism and the German Journalism Prize for Space and Aeronautics. In 2013, the Otto-Brenner Foundation awarded Kantara with the prize in critical journalism for his documentary Killing Via Joystick – the Drone War and its Consequences.
From the archives of Kantara Films & Documentaries: 1971 Film About Black Germans
