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Huus, Kari. "Being brown in a city of black and white." msnbc.com. 12 May 2008. msn. 13 October 2009 <[]> Kari Huus, who works for msnbc.com, is the interviewer in this article. She is interviewing Linda Hutcherson, a biracial woman from Detroit. Msnbc.com is the website for NBC News, which is a major American news organization. NBC owns and operates two United States television networks, numerous cable networks, a group of local stations throughout the country, motion picture companies, and a number of television production companies. From this we can imply that they are generally truthful in their reporting, because if they weren't they would probably not have been successful as a news organization. Huus has been a reporter for msnbc since it's start in 1996. Before working with msnbc, she spent three years as a staff writer for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and four years in Beijing, where she worked for Newsweek. She has also lived and studied in Taiwan and Singapore, where she was a Fulbright scholar. This article contains good primary sources, because it includes direct quotes from Hutcherson about her experience with race. In the article, she summarizes her experiences of racial oppression throughout her life, and gives her own opinion about how her hometown, Detroit, treats biracial people. As a biracial woman herself, Hutcherson is probably biased in favor of biracial people. Msnbc.com and Kari Huus also have a slight bias in the questions they choose to ask Hutcherson and the answers they choose to include. There were a lot of quotes included about her experiences of racial oppression, and not very many about racial acceptance. This could either be because that's the way her life has been, or it could just be because either she or Kari Huus choose to focus on the negative aspects of her life story. "Snapshot of the Melting Pot." msnbc.com. 28 May 2008. msn. 13 October 2009 <[]> This is an interactive map showing the racial distribution statistics for each state (and Washington D.C.) in July 2007. It also gives statistics for the biracial and Hispanic population of each state. It can be assumed that the numbers themselves are correct, because they are based off of the U.S. Census Bureau's findings. Msnbc.com is the website for NBC News, which is a major American news organization. NBC owns and operates two United States television networks, numerous cable networks, a group of local stations throughout the country, motion picture companies, and a number of television production companies. From this we can imply that they are generally truthful in their reporting, because if they weren't they would probably not have been successful as a news organization. The map is included as a part of msnbc.com's series "Multiracial in America- the Colors of Change," which includes a lot of first-hand accounts about what it is like to be a bi- or multiracial American. The series is obviously not at all biased against bi- or multiracial people, because it is really trying to cast them in a positive light for the public to see.