Tags: Allan Wolper, Conversations with Allan Wolper, Lacey Schwartz, Little White Lie, Rodney Parker, WBGO 88. on Monday 23 on PBS stations across the country. Film director, Lacey Schwartz, discusses her newest documentary, 'Little White Lie' and the family secret she reveals in the film. The one hour documentary, part of the Independent Lens series will air at 10 p. President Barack Obama said it was the best basketball book he had ever read. Her late biological father was Rodney Parker, a legendary New York City college basketball scout from Brooklyn whose life was captured in a book called Heaven is a Playground that was later made into a movie. Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock, New York, only to learn in college that her biological father was black and a friend of her family. Via RNS.Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Lacey Schwartz Delgado laceyschwartz Writer, Director, Producer, Speaker. 2014 Directed by Lacey Schwartz Delgado Synopsis Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity - despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She previously was Washington correspondent for The State. Lauren Markoe covered government and features as a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years before joining the Religion News Service staff as a national correspondent in 2011. WATCH the trailer for Little White Lie here. A clearly Jewish name, that literally means black.” “As a kid I never really liked ‘Schwartz.’ But now, after everything, it seemed perfect for me. “I put a lot of thought into the issue of changing my last name,” she says, as the screen shows images of her wedding. The following students were named to the principals honor roll for the first marking period at Northeast High School: NINTH GRADE: David Calderone, Brady Cassell, Bailey Clark, Christy DeBoy. Her voiceover explains her transformation. Little White Lie shows what that integration looks like, in an on-screen gathering of black family and Jewish family, and in the happiness and confidence Schwartz exudes as her black and Jewish self. But the mission, he said, “can’t be driven just by Jews of color.” In much the same way that Schwartz insists on embracing her whole self, Samuels wants to see the entire American Jewish community appreciate its diversity. Hebrew schools, for example, should teach that Moses had a black wife, Samuels said, referring to Zipporah, the Cushite woman in the Hebrew Bible. The film explores how Delgado discovered a. are racially and ethnically diverse - meaning their heritage is not European or exclusively European.Īaron Levy Samuels, a young black Jewish performance artist who writes and speaks about his dual heritage, said more needs to be done. Lacey Schwartz Delgado, a Black Jewish filmmaker, attorney and writer, is best known for her highly personal 2015 documentary, Little White Lie. The organization estimates about 20 percent of American Jews - or 1.2 million people in the U.S. “This is a population that is very difficult to count for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is people with a history of persecution tend not to readily identify themselves,” said Diane Tobin, Be’chol Lashon’s director. Just how many Jews of color are there in America? Schwartz is now the group’s national outreach director. Little White Lie, she said, makes that point.įive years ago, the leaders of Be’chol Lashon - or “in all tongues” in Hebrew - told Schwartz they wanted to help get her film made. When you are a Jew of color, “you have to know that many people are going to ask you why you are Jewish,” she said.Īs a program manager for Be’chol Lashon, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that runs camps and other programs for and about Jews of color, Newman is trying to show the rest of the Jewish community and the world beyond that Jewish does not always means white. But many people find it “sensational,” she said. Adopted by two white Jewish parents, she had what seemed to her a traditional and not particularly interesting New York Jewish upbringing. Raised as a white Jewish kid in Woodstock, New York, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz tells the story of her discovery that she is in fact bi-racial and doesnt. For me, the question is how can I walk into any space and not leave a piece of myself behind.”įor Lindsey Newman, the many pieces of her Jewish and mixed-race self have always been hers to appreciate. “My Jewish identity was never in question. What was in question was how to be Jewish and … meaning Jewish and black.
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