I wasn't raised in a biracial household; I don't call myself biracial.
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He killed his estranged white wife, their young biracial son and the wife's other biracial child.
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The question on biracial status has not come up but if someone identified as a person of color or as biracial, then we would consider them as a person of color or biracial.
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On Potomac we have black women and biracial women, and both biracial women also happen to be married to white men.
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Bow's narration provides a necessary history lesson on biracial politics, specifically Black biracial politics, and how it has developed in American history.
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A candidate making that appeal, however, and seeking to build a broad majority biracial coalition, must in fact have broad biracial appeal.
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" And in a recent episode of the Netflix TV show Dear White People, biracial people are divided into two groups: "You're not Rashida Jones biracial," one character says to another, "you're Tracee Ellis Ross biracial — people think of you as black.
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That Ms. Markle is older than the prince, divorced, biracial and American resonated with many people, including Ms. Schmidtke, whose son is biracial.
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I want to know what it meant to women of color, to biracial women, to teen women of color, to teens that are biracial.
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All else being equal, biracial women are much more likely than biracial men to identify as multiracial, suggesting racial boundaries are less malleable for men.
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" I've been called a "nigger" and a "biracial ape.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "What Biracial People Know" (Sunday Review, March 5): Moises Velasquez-Manoff makes a number of vital points about the creative ways that biracial people navigate the world.
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The frequency with which many biracial people hear the question "What are you?" highlights the confusion that biracial people are often faced with when they meet someone new for the first time.
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I think because I'm biracial, I have a unique perspective.
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When we were kids, being biracial wasn't cool or exotic.
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He's a biracial football player who played in the NFL.
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Markus is portrayed by biracial Grey's Anatomy actor Jesse Williams.
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But sometimes I say I'm biracial when describing my family.
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Stimulating reading for the mother of Britain's first biracial royal.
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Biracial people can relate with feeling like you're neither race.
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Her late husband was white, and her son is biracial.
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"I'm biracial and her grandchildren are biracial, and her daughter is gay and I'm gay," said Ms. Mehretu, a frequent guest at the ethnically diverse, cross-generational dinners Ms. Gund hosts at her home.
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She is biracial, with a black father and a white mother, a decision informed by Nickelodeon research indicating that most children under 12 will be nonwhite by 2020 and that already 17 percent are biracial.
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My stepdad is black and I have biracial nieces and nephews.
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Anyone know what brand makes a sweet looking biracial baby doll?
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A biracial, divorced American actress, Markle is an unlikely royal bride.
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Well, she is an interloper: divorced, American, biracial and, apparently, progressive.
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The same was true with all the black and biracial kids.
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I am a gay male in a very happy biracial marriage.
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I am a gay male in a very happy biracial marriage.
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The siblings had told her she wasn't the only biracial child.
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Scout would continue the narrative as a biracial and illegitimate child!
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Parker&aposs child, who is in the fifth grade, is biracial.
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"With 'Salty + Fresh,' I was very aware of it being a creation myth for myself; Virginia Key has this history, and I was having this biracial moment on the shore," Wilson, who is biracial, told Hyperallergic.
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Often enough, that's how it feels to be biracial — like you're nothing.
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Osaka is biracial: her mother is Japanese and her father is Haitian.
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Meghan is biracial and has been outspoken about her experiences with racism.
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Samantha White, the main character, is a biracial student at Winchester University.
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"It's heartwarming, the response I've gotten to my biracial twins," she says.
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The shame of having a biracial daughter she could not care for?
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Seventy-five percent of people in Hawaii are non-white or biracial.
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The cartoon Ms. Osaka bears little resemblance to her real, biracial self.
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As of now, Sanders is far from personifying broad majority biracial appeal.
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Sam's activism is partly a way to work through her biracial identity.
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"For biracial people, these racial identities are very salient," she told me.
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I was a young, single mother on welfare with a biracial child.
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They moved to Columbia because it was known to embrace biracial families.
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"I am biracial, but I could not pass for white," she said.
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WalkingStick describes herself as an artist, a mother, and a biracial woman.
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For today's biracial youth, Meghan Markle, the actress who married into the British royal family — and who has defined herself publicly as "a strong, confident mixed-race woman" — represents the biracial role model I didn't have growing up.
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"It said that Markle had faced racist coverage because she is biracial: "Markle is biracial — her mother is black and her father is white — and tabloid coverage of the actress has ranged from plain old invasive to downright offensive.
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Will their child look like Blake Griffin, the unofficial ambassador for biracial redheads?
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Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
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These younger generations are also more likely to be biracial than ever before.
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The Democrat, along with Duckworth, is biracial, another first for the national legislature.
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Biracial coalitions of black and white Republicans swept to power across the South.
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Raul, who is biracial, is described as 3 feet tall, weighing 38 lbs.
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Alba has Mexican-American roots and her husband, producer Cash Warren, is biracial.
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However, her biracial identity is precisely what led to Kravitz's views on race.
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She's biracial, so she's just as much African-American as she is Caucasian.
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Although the character, known as the Kid, is biracial, Prince himself was not.
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As a fellow biracial Asian, he honors the memory of Fresh Kid Ice.
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Right now, Daniel says, people request biracial couples more than any other emoji.
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Data on biracial people is tricky because it relies on self-reported identity.
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Being a biracial couple — Mr. Jones is black — was not without its difficulties.
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I wanted different family situations — single parent, biracial situations, intact families, blended families.
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As in: How could she think it was O.K. to have biracial children?
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He never had an issue with his daughter having biracial children, he said.
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This divorced biracial woman, 36 years old, who had built her own career.
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The rapper Logic is biracial; all of the show's rappers were not white.
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The biracial population is one of the fastest-growing groups in our country.
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This only adds to the self-doubt that so many biracial people face.
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Being biracial and having BareMinerals choose me to represent their brand means a lot.
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It's about the biracial identity that is born as a result of those relationships.
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I was a 90s fat kid, the biracial doppelgänger of Bruce Bogtrotter from Matilda.
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I know what you're thinking right now, and yes, that would make me biracial.
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Ollie's biracial identity is never explicitly addressed, but that doesn't mean it's not significant.
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She responded, mentioning that she has a Black husband, Chris Ivery, and biracial children.
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She also was a biracial adoptee, adopted by white British parents in the 1950s.
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Heather McNamara is biracial and a lesbian, or at least pretending to be one.
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Being a biracial person raised by a white family hasn't completely alleviated injustice either.
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Another term, biracial, some readers pointed out, assumes one identity borne out of two.
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NDiaye's novels frequently feature biracial couples, absent or distant fathers, and strained filial relationships.
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Carey quickly refuted this by offering clarity on her identity as a biracial woman.
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Markle has a white father and Black mother and has spoken about being biracial.
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The biracial American actress, like her fiance Prince Harry, is a child of divorce.
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She's the woman who wrote a searing essay about growing up biracial in America.
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Thomas is the adopted biracial son of sheep and cattle farmers in the Pyrenees.
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An older white man crossed the street holding the hand of a biracial child.
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Indeed, the couple's child was clearly biracial, although the donor they'd selected was white.
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He talked, as he often does, about building a biracial, multi-generational grassroots movement.
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We had writers married to people who were of different races, and biracial children.
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But Lincoln failed to take the next step by endorsing a biracial American society.
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Birta Abiba Þórhallsdóttir, 20, is the first-ever biracial winner of Miss Universe Iceland.
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But again: I am so excited about the prospect of a biracial American princess.
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A later episode, "Being Bow-Racial," not only featured a biracial character acknowledging being biracial but also talking about it, trying to understand what it means and how it's affected her life, and sorting out the complexities that make her who she is.
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PAVLICH: And therefore, his biracial son has to be worried about walking around the street.
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The biracial Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party aimed to unseat the state's lily-white official delegation.
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Baby Sussex will be the first (publicly acknowledged) biracial baby born into the British monarchy.
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Probably not, but a biracial American divorcée marrying into the royal family is certainly notable.
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The book follows Maria, a biracial New Yorker who seems to have the perfect life.
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace has been taken to task for erasing Andrew's biracial identity.
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New People follows Maria and Khalil, a biracial couple living in Brooklyn in the '90s.
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Far from glossing over Markle's biracial heritage, the couple made a point of involving Rev.
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American-born Meghan Markle is one of the first biracial members of the British monarchy.
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Janu emailed him, warning about the challenges facing interracial couples and parents of biracial children.
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Both have immigrant roots, biracial backgrounds, law-school degrees and short stints in the Senate.
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Markle told the magazine about her biracial heritage and how it's affected her in Hollywood.
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Ms. Bull's three children are biracial and can be seen in her Facebook profile picture.
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And there on stage was Harris herself -- a biracial woman of color running for president.
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But we do — and some of us with biracial heritage avidly, enthusiastically search them out.
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DeLarverie, a biracial male impersonator, worked as a bouncer at lesbian bars); style models (Ms.
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He's been discredited for being a biracial adoptee who was raised in a white family.
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The boy, who is biracial, was treated in the hospital and released, the police said.
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At 20 years old, Þórhallsdóttir is the first-ever biracial winner of Miss Universe Iceland.
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As a biracial woman, I've had a lot of time to think about interracial relationships.
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"If I know that the Bible doesn't say anything about biracial marriages, she knows too."
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He's in fact biracial — his mother is white — and he's married to a white woman.
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Though Joe identifies as Creole, and Cora and Del are biracial, they are economically privileged.
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Went on then to have biracial children with someone who's African American, someone who's Latino.
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That's not just because Markle hails from Los Angeles — she is also divorced and biracial.
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Being a father of biracial children, I'm definitely not one to pull the race card.
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And it's not just the heavy stuff, like a discussion on the fine line between assimilation and self-preservation, but it's also the lighter things: differentiating between "Rashida Jones biracial" and "Tracee Ellis Ross biracial" or casually mentioning an oft-forgotten moment in Brandy's history.
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When Lahren insisted that she doesn't "see color," Noah — a biracial South African man — visibly winced.
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The Christmas luncheon was the first time Markle, who is biracial, met Prince Harry's extended family.
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"It was a combination of being biracial and experiencing the darker side of life," she said.
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But the flurry turned into a frenzy as details of Markle's background — American, divorced, biracial — emerged.
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Southwest Airlines has apologized after a mom was asked to prove her biracial son was hers.
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Johnson sought to restore white supremacy in the South; Congress meant to build a biracial democracy.
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"Even by hiring me, they are sending a signal," said Ms. Graf Mack, who is biracial.
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Boy who is never going to be King of England meets biracial American actor and voila.
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Not only is Markle American and biracial, her public appearances are more than just photo opps.
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But even in sunnier moments, my family rarely acknowledged the social fact of our biracial identity.
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Most notably, Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Szohr), Dan's longtime friend and Nate's once love interest, was biracial.
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"The story is about the experience of biracial children growing up in Nazi Germany," they wrote.
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" Markle added that "being biracial paints a blurred line" that is "equal parts staggering and illuminating.
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We must admit that "The New Jim Crow" was a result of a bipartisan, biracial collaboration.
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"Well, I think if the explanation is that she's biracial, then shame on everybody," she added.
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"The biracial son of a low-income single mother," and he's cheering on the line cutters.
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"My son-in-law is a black man and I have biracial grandchildren," she reportedly added.
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"Well, I think if the explanation is that she's biracial, then shame on everybody," she said.
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Are you a biracial or multiracial person who routinely changes your identity depending on your circumstances?
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As the father of a biracial child, [I think] these are stories that should be told.
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As the father of a biracial child, [I think] these are stories that should be told.
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Laura Kung is the mother of Estie, the biracial eight-year-old girl in the skit.
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That's the pre-modern form of conquest and expansion; biracial powers that can speak both languages.
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Portraying him otherwise misses the duality and in-between experience he had as a biracial man.
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My good friend, who is white, is raising her young biracial daughter as a single mother.
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In Syracuse, a biracial crowd attacked a police station where an accused fugitive was being held.
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Over the last decade, she wrote several plays that explored what it meant to be biracial.
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That task of self-creation isn't unique to biracial people; it's a defining experience of modernity.
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Even in the stories I wrote myself, I was only writing white characters and biracial characters.
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If that is speech, then the baker can refuse biracial couples, Muslims, Jews, you name it.
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It depicted biracial and LGBTQ couples and tackled complicated issues like class representation, and mental health.
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Also, being biracial, he felt discouraged by the lack of people of color in the industry.
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But being biracial didn't make it any easier for her to elude stereotypes about African Americans.
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The California senator is biracial, with parents who immigrated to the United States from Jamaica and India.
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Apparently biracial is the new Black on the diversity front; but that's another post for another day.
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No one questioned how race plays into the rape of biracial character Jessica, or even her popularity.
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As a biracial family, cultural norms also affect the family rules that we set about physical touch.
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These are all bold moves for a biracial woman at a network known for bolstering white men.
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Carey is the mixed-race child of an Irish mom and a biracial Black and Venezuelan father.
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A biracial man living in mostly white, conservative Arizona, 35-year-old Frank has often experienced racism.
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For decades, Saar has explored the emotional conflict underlying identity from the perspective of a biracial woman.
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The racist characters are brazenly racist: They call biracial children "abominations" and freely use the n-word.
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Sydney received racist messages about being biracial and was concerned for how they made her mom feel.
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Others wrote memoirs about life with a meth-addicted father or what it means to be biracial.
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Being biracial might have further impacted him, as it was difficult to fully identify with either group.
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She reminded me that black and biracial babies will always be born, no matter who is president.
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I don't think her ascension has had much of an impact on how Japanese view biracial Japanese.
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Occasionally on these outings Rain Dove is assisted by Mx. Wade, who is biracial and nonbinary transfeminine.
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He was a tall, lean, biracial junior, less than a year from graduating with a business degree.
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Tracee Ellis Ross plays his wife, who, like the real Rainbow, is a biracial anesthesiologist nicknamed Bow.
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Ms. Markle, of course, is the biracial American actress Prince Harry is set to marry on Saturday.
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But if they're going to exist, it's extremely exciting to have one be a biracial American princess.
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One group of subjects was told that the assistant was biracial while the other group was not.
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Or do I want someone who might be biracial, who is going to fight for equity and parity?
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As a biracial child, I felt like I was in the middle of both my whiteness and blackness.
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In 2004, Milwaukee police officers brutally beat Frank Jude, a biracial man they believed stole a police badge.
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Being biracial is a huge part of my own identity, and it's just really nice to feel represented.
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Hartford, Wisconsin (CNN)Tiffany Koehler was raised in foster care, is biracial, a veteran and a cancer survivor.
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She has been candid about her family's history with racism and the discrimination she has experienced being biracial.
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Only about 10% of SNL hosts are people of color or biracial, according to data compiled by Indiewire.
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Kaepernick may be biracial, and have more money than most, but that doesn't mean racism isn't a problem.
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I want to know what it meant to women of color, biracial women, to teen women of color.
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Stenberg, who is biracial, didn't feel comfortable playing a character who was supposed to be native to Africa.
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Aisha Dee plays Kat, the biracial social media director at a fictional magazine, on Freeform's The Bold Type.
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We didn't think people would like us because of our look and being biracial—but they loved us.
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And the boldest move of all — casting Reid as Meg, and making the character biracial — is curiously underplayed.
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He raised four kids, adopted another, fostered more; when they were all grown, he adopted two biracial sons.
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Meghan has opened up about her family's history with racism and the discrimination she has experienced being biracial.
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The first is heroine Rue Bennett (Zendaya), a biracial high school junior engulfed by various mental health struggles.
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Biracial Americans are often told to choose one racial identity based how they are perceived physically by society.
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Crazy that openly hawking her pro-Trump book and making jokes about Pete Davidson being biracial didn't land.
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Biracial Meghan -- half black, half white -- obviously has tanner skin than Harry, so LEGOLAND clearly missed the mark.
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I'm married to a Chinese man who is an immigrant, I have biracial children, I'm half Jewish myself.
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Jerrika Hinton plays Ashley, a Liberian-born fashion marketer married to a white Republican, with a biracial child.
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He is biracial but checks "black" on forms because he says it makes it easier to fight racism.
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In 1898, racist forces in Wilmington, North Carolina fomented a riot to dislodge a biracial Republican city council.
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It followsLincoln Clay, a biracial Vietnam veteran who was betrayed by the Italian Mafia, and now seeks revenge.
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Spencer moves in with my family, and I'm married to a white woman and have two biracial children.
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For example, while we learn that the Vanderbeekers are "a biracial family," Glaser never explicitly says which races.
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Kant-Rauch, a Democrat who happens to have a biracial daughter, became emotional after hearing it, she said.
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As the father of two biracial children, his material portrays domestic scenes navigating parenting in a racist world.
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Perhaps most interesting: Many women of color see themselves in Markle, who has written about her biracial identity.
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On paper, Obama was a step forward—a young, biracial idealist appealing to basic tenants of social progress.
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The casting has generated some controversy, in part over the biracial actor chosen as the male romantic lead.
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Finally, there were generations of children born in free Black and biracial communities, many who never knew slavery.
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For his twin children, presented as biracial, there was then an insistence that they sound like their father.
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Similarly, a telling encounter with a biracial juror plays like a spotlight on the complexities of tribal loyalty.
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"I just felt as if the wool was over my eyes," said Ms. Graham, who identifies as biracial.
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Yet who can biracial kids look up to if the popular press and culture avoid this racial identity?
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Other research has highlighted that the word "biracial" is harder for people to think about than monoracial categories.
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In fact, the biracial demographic is now facing higher rates of mental health outcomes and increased substance abuse.
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Others are thrilled by the fact that a member of the Royal Family is dating somebody who is biracial.
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This scene really struck a chord with viewers, even those who aren't biracial, for its honest commentary on race.
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The media mogul further claimed that the braids were a celebratory nod to her biracial daughter's naturally curly tresses.
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Meghan Markle is opening up about her family's history with racism and the discrimination she has experienced being biracial.
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The lead character of Netflix's On My Block is Monse, a biracial girl played by Afro Latina Sierra Capri.
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There's everyone from Mexican actress Martha Higareda, who plays headstrong detective Kristin Ortega, and biracial star Dichen Lachman, a.k.a.
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This is exciting because of, you know, love and stuff, but also the groundbreaking fact that Markle is biracial.
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My CNN essay "Biracial and also black" generated a debate about the words we use to describe African-Americans.
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"In school, I was the only child that looked the way I did," she says of her biracial background.
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During the next few years, Vicki and Justin had three biological kids and adopted biracial twin girls from Minnesota.
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The new cast featured grandchildren for Roseanne including one who is gender non-conforming and another who is biracial.
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"Well, I think if the explanation is that she's biracial, then shame on everybody," Clinton told The Sunday Times.
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In the apology, the apparent owner explained how she tried to locate where in the Bible forbade biracial relationships.
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Markle, whose father is of Dutch and Irish descent and whose mother is African-American, describes herself as biracial.
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It follows Lincoln Clay, a biracial Vietnam veteran who was betrayed by the Italian Mafia, and now seeks revenge.
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Actually, Perry's mother, Ginnie (Sally Murphy), is white, and his father, Don, an English instructor at Hillcrest, is biracial.
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De Blasio talked about his biracial son, and Cory Booker reminisced about growing up African-American in New Jersey.
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"A warm smile, a firm handshake and a witty comment isn't doing it," said Ms. Harris, who is biracial.
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Which is how a story as unusual as royalty marrying a biracial foreign commoner winds up feeling awfully dull.
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After all, as the biracial daughter of her New England town's only gay dads, Eisa is anything but mainstream.
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The conviction that we can and should become a truly biracial society is a recent, mid-20th-century idea.
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As a biracial person and person of color, I have experienced racist remarks being made about or around me.
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" What's more, "A Colored Farmers' Alliance grew rapidly as well, and held out the possibility of biracial coalition-building.
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He died in 21988, at the height of Reconstruction, when biracial governments had come to power throughout the South.
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My son is not the only light-skinned, mixed or biracial person I know who identifies primarily as black.
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As the biracial child of a single mother, I was an anomaly in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina.
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"Adults might say, 'Oh, look — she's biracial,' but our viewers just say, 'That looks like my friend,'" she said.
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The surgery was also notable because the donated heart came from a biracial man, a divisive decision during apartheid.
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During my visit, I was working on an educators' guide to accompany an anthology of writing by biracial authors.
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As a biracial person, you're told that you're half of both, and being half is a really odd feeling.
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The novel draws its power from this unnamed man's love for his family, particularly for his biracial son, Nigel.
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Perhaps that's why the word "biracial" is so difficult for people to use — it disrupts that way of thinking.
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When I entered the University of Virginia as a biracial young woman, I was shell-shocked, to say the least.
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"And maybe somewhere down the line that helps my son, who is biracial and will be for his entire life."
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Approximately 77% of the children were white, 18% African-American, while the remainder had Hispanic, biracial or other ethnic backgrounds.
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She acknowledged her presidential run as a biracial woman helping to shatter notions about being black, Asian and a woman.
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Smith competed in her first pageant -- Miss Texas in 1994 -- and became the first biracial woman to win the pageant.
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Since he's Muslim and his wife is Christian, he frequently writes about raising children in a biracial, bi-religious home.
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Somewhere in this hullabaloo is a passable character study of interracial parents and their varying expectations for their biracial son.
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Wells, who is also a minister, is a biracial man who has talked about being racially profiled on social media.
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"Being gay and biracial in the music industry, and being a woman, it's a little scary at times," she says.
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Women who are biracial, not Black, or even lighter stand out and are placed on a pedestal as more valuable.
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I'm biracial — half Puerto Rican and half Black — and blending together two cultures wasn't always as simple as it sounds.
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And Meghan's baby will be the first modern biracial royal who is in line for the throne — 7th in fact.
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In stark contrast to present-day attitudes, it wasn't just undesirable to look biracial in this context — it was dangerous.
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She gives him the maid's room, and Jed suspects she has told her gorgeous biracial children to keep their distance.
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Markle, now Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex, incorporated numerous touches from her American culture as a biracial woman.
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Delgado, a prominent attorney, is the first Latinx and biracial major party candidate — and now U.S. Representative — for the seat.
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You had white women, Hispanic women, biracial women—it wasn't completely diverse, but it was, for the time, pretty diverse.
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I'm a biracial woman who was raised on the West Side of Cincinnati by the white half of my family.
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Earlier this year, Meghan opened up about her family's history with racism and the discrimination she has experienced being biracial.
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This is the generation who grew up with friends with two moms, a biracial family, a religion different than yours.
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They have a heartfelt conversation about the status of their biracial relationship, and exchange their first "I love you"s.
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" Oblivious Archie — who's actually played by a biracial actor, but is coded as white on Riverdale — responds, "Not exactly, Mrs.
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"Growing up different, being biracial, having the whole thing where I did not know if I fit in," she said.
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White voters skew much older while younger voters are much more likely to be either black, Asian, Hispanic or biracial.
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That should be enough to scratch him off any wedding guest list, but especially one where the bride is biracial.
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It's why he and his wife, who is also multiracial, insist on calling their two young sons black, not biracial.
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He couldn't have known I'm a biracial guy with black father; even if he had known, he mightn't have cared.
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I'm still of mixed descent since I'm biracial but the point is that, that Black Canadian thing was still instilled.
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Sam's love interest, Rose, is played by another out and queer biracial star, Sasha Lane (The Miseducation of Cameron Post).
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There were still comments around my biracial makeup, what I looked like or didn't, how smart I was or not.
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"Crazy Rich Asians" has generated some controversy over the casting of the biracial Mr. Golding as the male romantic lead.
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Logan Browning plays Samantha, a biracial radio host who dresses down white students as a way of parsing her identity.
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The surgery was also notable because the donated heart came from a biracial man, a provocative decision during apartheid rule.
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The DMV agent told her they didn't have a biracial option, so she'd have to choose: Are you Black or white?
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"It was totally discriminating and racist of her... or maybe it was because my daughter is biracial who knows," Laliberte wrote.
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The film documents the experiences of biracial children in Nazi Germany, and Stenberg had to shave their head for the role.
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When an Asian party guest asks Chris "Is African-American experience an advantage or disadvantage?" it reveals Peele's own biracial anxiety.
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Initially, the country's first biracial president had signaled that he wanted to pass comprehensive reform, but then Wall Street melted down.
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My own refrain — "as a biracial woman, my experience of x can leave me feeling hopelessly in-between" — was textbook SOS.
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"I love that the lead character is biracial and you just get that through the context of the movie," she said.
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When I was transferred, he told me to 'represent' for [the biracial people], to be what he called a raspberry beret.
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As a result, this second installment includes white people who have intersecting identities, including biracial, multiracial, non-binary and transgender identities.
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There are also murky waters when some suggest Drake can't appropriate or co-opt Jamaican culture because of his biracial identity.
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The Senate The Senate will see the first female biracial senators, the first Latina senator and the first Thai-born senator.
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The story involves the family's biracial matriarch, Rainbow, meeting her son Junior's white girlfriend, Megan, and things go less than smoothly.
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Abandoning the 'one-drop' rule Traditionally, biracial Americans of part-white parentage have identified culturally and politically with their minority race.
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"Kamala Harris won this district when she ran for Senate, so a biracial progressive has won this district before," he said.
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Her installations and portraits explore what it means to be biracial in America by playing up stereotypes and aspects of generalizations.
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Osaka is the latest biracial athlete to enter the limelight in Japan following sprinter Asuka Cambridge and baseball player Yu Darvish.
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The broad outlines of her bio -- biracial, daughter of academics with immigrant roots -- will draw fair comparisons to President Barack Obama.
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" A biracial lesbian who noted she had worked in mostly male-dominated jobs, she called herself "a whole lot of otherness.
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Meg is biracial with a white father (Chris Pine), black mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and an adopted Filipino-American little brother.
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A white person in Virginia could be banished from the colony for having a child with a black or biracial person.
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"Not being a straight white guy — being black, being biracial — you're always inside and outside the world at once," he added.
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Race is present in this film adaptation because of DuVernay's decision to cast biracial actor Storm Reid as the movie's protagonist.
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The biracial Knights of Labor called for an eight-hour workday, currency reform and the nationalization of the railroads and utilities.
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The novel tells the story of Maria, a biracial woman who has what on the surface seems like a perfect life.
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Four years ago, I was a young, brooding, biracial (Mexican-Palestinian) man trying to find myself and my place in America.
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Peter Parker, who is white, has been replaced, sort of, by a biracial teenager named Miles Morales who lives in Brooklyn.
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Lee was half of a biracial couple to whom no one would rent, so she needed money to buy a house.
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The menu and the ambience echo his biracial origins — his mother was from Normandy and his father from the Ivory Coast.
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The author of the letter is Hannah Black, a black-identified biracial artist who hails from England and resides in Berlin.
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In "Dorothy Champ" (2002), glistening crystal tears falling from the sad blue eyes of the beautiful biracial actress conjure the actress's emotional conflict over leaving a successful Broadway career to become a Bahai activist, while in "Nella Larsen…Passing" (2003) she places a white lace veil over a portrait of an author who explores biracial identity.
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In a significant milestone for British society, the newborn has made history by becoming the first biracial child in the royal family.
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Though Suits actress Meghan Markle may look ethnically ambiguous, she is proudly biracial, the daughter of a Black mother and white father.
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She's a 36-year-old biracial American divorcée who, before giving up her career for love and philanthropy, worked as an actress.
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Kat spent an entire episode, season 2's "Rose Colored Glasses," explaining why she avoided boxes all together as a biracial child.
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Samantha White's opening lines of Dear White People include just one of many frustrating questions people who identify as biracial often receive.
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One of Markle's former theater professors also recalls her being very aware of her existence as a biracial woman on the stage.
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As a biracial Asian-American kid who grew up in Chicago, I was an avid reader before I was into anything else.
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Years ago, Harry marrying Meghan would have been unheard of for a variety of reasons: she's biracial, divorced, an actress and American.
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Then Nick sat down with Rachel's sister Constance and her husband Alex, who gave them advice from one biracial couple to another.
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I did it in a comic about being biracial, and then I did it in a comic about joining a littering cult.
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She squeezes her biracial granddaughter tightly with affection and defends her gender-fluid grandson's right to wear clothes usually sported by girls.
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Biracial or multiracial people like myself have challenged America's "either/or" approach to race long before someone coined the term racial fluidity.
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During her one-on-one date with Peter, Sydney opened up about being bullied for being biracial at her Alabama high school.
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And I think that especially for people like me, I guess, who are biracial, there are elements of both in your life.
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The biracial, sexually fluid social media director Kat (Aisha Dee) wrestles with labeling herself as the magazine's first black female department head.
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Although he could not as pass as white, he neither emphasized his biracial identity nor publicly suggested that it inspired his work.
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There is a frisson of delight in seeing a biracial hero dominate a superhero movie and, in Abdul-Mateen, his black foe.
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But a few years back, AncestryDNA linked Smith to a niece whose deceased father, Thomas, was another biracial child of Ann D'Amico.
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Smith, the child of a black Jamaica-born mother and a white British father, wasn't used to seeing biracial characters in fiction.
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In reality, free Black and Black-white biracial communities existed in states such as Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio well before abolition.
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The title character in "The Stranger," for example, is a white man in the book, but on Netflix she's a biracial woman.
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It is also an exuberant celebration of personal and political liberation, making visible Blake's complex identity as a queer, biracial, nonbinary person.
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My white partner, Juliet, and our biracial children who, at 217 and 220, know half their DNA traces them to western Africa.
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Does having black husbands or biracial children change what they're "allowed" to do, or what conversations they should be a part of?
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Being a divorced, biracial American in the royal family, it doesn't matter what decisions she makes: they'll be scrutinized all the same.
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Markle had already defied royal British norms simply by being Meghan Markle: a divorced biracial American who was also a professional actress.
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And it was hard not to feel for this gay man of biracial origin who remained haunted by his tone-deaf cruelty.
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We already know that twins don't have to look alike, but these fraternal biracial twins are proving that differences can be beyond adorable.
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Growing up in a biracial household, did you ever have a difficult time seeing yourself in the stuff you watched as a kid?
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And if Grace Kelly, Princess Diana, and Kate Middleton had it hard, Markle's biracial heritage is sure to make things even more arduous.
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As a biracial woman, I feel there is a boundary placed among us to inhibit our success in positions of power or leadership.
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" The oldest member of her biracial support group, Curtis said Prince "was totally different and walked to the beat of his own drummer.
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With his large afro and full beard, Kaepernick, who is biracial, cut a broodingly dashing protest figure reminiscent of the Black Power era.
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The beer-bellied, unkempt Thor, God of Thunder, looks out over New Asgard alongside the biracial and (debatably canonically) bisexual warrior goddess Valkyrie.
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If all goes to plan from there, the mom-to-be will give birth to a biracial baby in a matter of weeks.
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It's especially difficult to watch Rob equate saying Dream is biracial with inciting a "race war" since Chyna is silently sitting right there.
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David Axelrod recognized in a lanky biracial state senator from Illinois a man who could be a history-making candidate for national office.
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But it's an interesting way of looking at how biracial people have had to suppress aspects of themselves, or one part of themselves.
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A statement issued this morning accuses "social media trolls" of subjecting Markle, who is biracial, and her family to sexist and racist abuse.
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You also talk a lot about being an outsider — because you're biracial, because you had an abusive stepfather — which informed your solitary nature.
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The episode in which Kat reflects on her biracial identity is very illuminating — what do you think this episode is trying to say?
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"When you're deeply involved in a biracial entity, you think of people as brothers and sisters," he told The Washington Post in 890.
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"I'm half-Mexican, half Vietnamese," said Maddox, 24, pointing out she wanted to see the top tier, biracial Harris with her own eyes.
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Before the start, Wallace had received well-wishes from the four-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton, who, like Wallace, is biracial.
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They feared they might be killed, especially in the 1950s, when they became one of the first biracial couples to marry in Oregon.
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I am biracial, but in the United States, more often than not, I am always going to be labeled a person of color.
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" On Twitter, King explained, "I'm a biracial woman... Morning Edition is a notably diverse team who thought long and hard before airing this.
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Of those, four of the five characters who obtained an abortion in the course of the plotline were either Black or biracial women.
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The first statue was the Liberty Monument, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans.
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Morales is a biracial kid — he's half Puerto Rican and half black — living in a universe that's parallel to the main Marvel universe.
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She is American, divorced, and biracial, which has long made her a target of racist remarks from the British press and elsewhere online.
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Similar to when former President Barack Obama was elected as the first black and first biracial president, these are all symbols of change.
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But all types of biracial people who claim their multiple racial identities may still struggle with questions about their identity and fitting in.
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Southwest Airlines has apologized after an employee asked a mother to prove her biracial son was hers before boarding a flight with the baby.
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I'm sure some of that skill can be attributed to his DNA and his upbringing, a biracial child being raised by his white grandparents.
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But as a fair-skinned, half-Creole and half-Cajun, biracial man, Luck says he's used to people trying to figure out his race.
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"We are the new Americana," the singer, who told the Times she identifies as "trib bi — biracial, bisexual and bipolar," sings in the chorus.
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The television reboot turns that dynamic around, with a new trio of Heathers: a snarky heavyset girl, a biracial girl, and a genderqueer student.
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Yes, she was a marketing dream when she first hit the scene having mainstream appeal as a biracial singer with an eight-octave range.
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However, no one embodies intersectionality quite like newcomer Toni Topaz, the biracial girl from the South Side who made her debut in season two.
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Getting to represent that on TV — especially being biracial and bisexual — I think it's groundbreaking and I'm really proud to be part of that.
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He always played a paladin character—the holy soldier—and I played a druid, usually half elf—biracial, like me—and usually a woman.
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These instances throw Frank off-kilter when he comes home from work, his wife Jamie, also 35 and biracial (Filipina and white), tells me.
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My husband is white; as an Armenian man, I am a hue darker, and our 10-year-old daughter is biracial, with brown skin.
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As the New York mayor cites his biracial son in a presidential debate, a report accuses the N.Y.P.D. of mishandling complaints of racial bias.
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"I understand that my social posts could be misconstrued and could have been insensitive," Ms. Hazelgrove, who noted that her children are biracial, said.
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"I understand that my social posts could be misconstrued and could have been insensitive," Ms. Hazelgrove, who noted that her children are biracial, said.
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She was proud of being a woman of color, her sister said, but it was being biracial that provided the grist for her writing.
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There's also Alana (Annie McNamara) and Phillip (Sullivan Jones): She's a white plantation mistress; he's a biracial house slave; she yearns to penetrate him.
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Mariah Carey, who has a white mother and a black, Venezuelan father, was the only white-looking biracial person I knew of growing up.
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Just as Meghan, 37, has embraced her own biracial heritage throughout her life, she and Harry, 34, will teach their son to do the same.
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The biracial Trevor Noah may have been "born a crime" in South Africa, to quote the title of his memoir, but apartheid failed as well.
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Thankful parents and grandparents write to Jackie, including moms of biracial families, adoptive families, and even white families who want their children to respect diversity.
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The story that first comes to mind is "The Paper Menagerie," about a biracial child coming to terms with his identity via some fantastical origami.
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And the outcry is amplified by the fact that Meghan is a biracial American and still considered by some an outsider (in other words, unworthy).
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The Duchess of Sussex, 37, has spoken out about growing up biracial (her mom, Doria Ragland, is Black, and her father, Thomas Markle, is white).
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It also helps that over the course of their meal, the biracial playboy opens up about his own vulnerabilities and fears in his creative career.
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She's a research scholar, she's engaged to an entrepreneur who's launching a new internet venture, and she's the star of a documentary about biracial Americans.
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Written and directed by British screenwriter Amma Asante, the historical drama follows Leyna (Stenberg), a biracial teen growing up in an increasingly terrifying Nazi Germany.
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"We the Animals," a film about three biracial brothers, led all movies with five nods, including one for best first feature from director Jeremiah Zagar.
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Constance got right to the point and hit us with the hard facts: Biracial couples face racism, so are Rachel and Nick ready for that?
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The novel chronicles the story of Flip, a biracial butch lesbian who cruises the streets of San Francisco in search of love and sexual intimacy.
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New Orleans on Monday removed a Confederate statue erected to honor a league representing white people that ousted a biracial government after the Civili War.
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Howard is biracial, and the film deftly touches on the complicated racial dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship without ever pushing it into the spotlight.
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Meghan is also shown as a young girl, already outspoken and independent, pushing back against being forced into a box because of her biracial heritage.
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I was focused more on critical studies around race, ethnicity, gender, and queerness as those related to me as a biracial, trans, queer-identifying person.
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And what will Trump's reckless rhetoric and punitive policies do to those gender-fluid and biracial grandchildren of Roseanne ... or the real people like them?
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There is an apparent effort to "other" her -- perhaps due to her being American but also, in a more insidious way, over her biracial heritage.
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More than just providing accounts of the supernatural, figures like Scott and the biracial Randolph used their platform to advocate for suffrage, abolition, and socialism.
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They are a biracial family with five kids and three pets residing on two floors of "a humble red brownstone with a weathervane" in Harlem.
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In fact, the last one to manage it — biracial, the child of divorce, raised with little money by a single mother — became our 44th president.
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She recalled how she received a message from a man letting her know that his biracial daughter was inspired by her role at the paper.
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For every "Dreams From My Father," Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing, there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.
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But Ms. Markle is a highly unusual royal bride: She's American, divorced, three years older than Harry, had a high-profile career and is biracial.
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In "Caucasia," two biracial sisters create a dialect of their own, and with it, a bespoke universe apart from a world intent on defining them.
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As a biracial professor who emigrated to the U.S. from the U.K., I get worried when we build ethnic and geographical walls around our politics.
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She is, like me, a biracial American woman, and while there is no more interesting topic than myself, Ms. Markle will do in a pinch.
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He lashed out at aggressive paparazzi that stalked Meghan's every move when they were dating and offensive treatment of her biracial heritage by some media.
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The aftermath of the civil war and the three Reconstruction amendments have not, Mr Foner writes, set everything right for "the world's first biracial democracy".
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Rainbow is arguably the most fascinating member of the Johnson family, and the Black-ish episode focused on her biracial identity is a series high.
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" Ms. Markle described herself as biracial in an August 2015 interview with Elle magazine, saying, "My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African-American.
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It pretty much immediately became a symbol of how Ms. Markle, a biracial American (former) actress and activist, was going to approach her new role.
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Come on Albert, we lived together for over 2 years and have a beautiful biracial baby that I love more than anything in this world!
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The Post described the Aylmer twins as "biracial," and also said in the very same sentence that one is white and the other is black.
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The emergence of other biracial athletes, such as baseball player Yu Darvish and sprinter Asuka Cambridge, has also helped build acceptance for those of diverse backgrounds.
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The new prince "will not only have that American heritage, but will also be the first biracial baby in line to the British throne," she said.
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The white father of biracial YouTube stars, the McClure Twins, is facing heavy criticism after racist and misogynistic posts on the family's Twitter account recently resurfaced.
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Ervin, who is biracial, even became a reluctant social figure by virtue of becoming the first African-American swimmer in history to win an Olympic medal.
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In one episode, Mariana (Cierra Ramirez), a Latina teen being raised by a white mother and a biracial mother, is adamant about dying her hair blond.
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When Meghan Markle married Prince Harry on May 19, 2018, she broke new ground for the royal family when she became the first American biracial royal.
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A biracial couple expecting twins have approximately a 1 in 500 chance for their twins to be born with different skin colors, according to the BBC.
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Last week, Koeberle Bull, a widow with three biracial children, claims she woke up to a disturbing message on Facebook from a man she didn't know.
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I eavesdrop on Thai-speaking patrons complaining about the brutal Los Angeles traffic, which feels like a wonderful mish-mash that reflects my own biracial identity.
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She requested a refund for the $5 order, but Crichton, a white man, allegedly responded by calling Ford, who is biracial, and her children racial slurs.
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But at the bottom it was because of the fact that Longstreet shocked and outraged white Southerners, because he was willing to participate in biracial politics.
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Kammen, who is white but married to a Nigerian-American woman with whom he has biracial children, said the incident was a turning point for him.
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As a biracial American with a strong record of defending women's rights and a champion of diversity, Markle is already changing the guard at the palace.
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"I spoke about being biracial and my feelings of not being completely open to the idea of my black son dating a white woman," Henry said.
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It follows Lincoln Clay, a biracial Vietnam vet out for revenge after being betrayed by the Italian mob of New Bordeaux (a fictional New Orleans analogue).
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At Juke's insistence, for disturbing reasons that become clear as the novel unfolds, Elma claims motherhood to both Nan's biracial son and her own white daughter.
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In the past week, a biracial man was charged with sending pipe bombs to prominent Democrats; reports said he drove a van covered in hateful propaganda.
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The approximate costs (not including legal fees) were $35,000 for a white baby, $18,000 for a black baby, and $24,000 to $26,000 for a biracial baby.
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I didn't understand what being biracial meant when I was a kid; I just knew that I didn't look like my stepfamily, because they were white.
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LONDON — For many in the British news media, the engagement of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, a divorced biracial American, reflected how egalitarian Britain had become.
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And Genevieve Gaignard goes further still in a full-scale installation of a grandmotherly living room, in which every detail speaks of her own biracial identity.
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Still Processing For months, the two of us have been trying to figure out a way to have a conversation about the experience of being biracial.
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As much internet chatter discussed, protagonist Kovacs is a biracial Asian and white man who was living in a white sleeve for most of season 1.
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Though he is biracial, he has talked proudly about his heritage and is known for speaking out on racial as well as gay and lesbian issues.
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" London later wrote in a follow-up this week that she was contacted by the location's manager, "who is apparently biracial and witnessed the entire situation.
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Meghan, a biracial, divorced American actress, was far from what many envisioned as a fairy-tale match for a beloved member of the British royal family.
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Mr. Roberts, a high school football coach and a patient navigator at a hospital, is black and his wife is white, and their daughters are biracial.
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Consider this: By 3 months of age, biracial infants recognize faces more quickly than their monoracial peers, suggesting that their facial perception abilities are more developed.
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The new prince or princess will not only have that American heritage, but will also be the first biracial baby in line to the British throne.
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Alison Saar's sister, Lezley Saar, is a painter and installation artist whose work engages with the myths and fluid conceptions of both biracial and transgender identities.
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But somehow, thanks to the often confusing topic of racial identity, stories like People magazine's "Biracial Twins Born in Illinois: 'It's So Rare'" still make headlines.
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So the fact that not only is Prince Harry dating a biracial woman, but one who doesn't hesitate to say that she's Black and proud feels monumental.
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"We look at this country as black and white, and as a biracial person you get to be on the sidelines like, 'Y'all are crazy'," he laughs.
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I'm biracial, so it's always difficult to find the right shade — I was so excited to find a NARS foundation on set that was a perfect match.
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Stenberg was on set of her upcoming movie Where Hands Touch — where she plays a biracial girl growing up during the Holocaust — the night of the election.
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Although it's doubtful that the Queen showed Meghan a portrait of Queen Charlotte, a biracial royal, during her palace visit, she is, in fact, a real royal.
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Owusu-Bempah told VICE between growing up in a biracial household in rural Ontario and researching race relations, he's learned to put his emotions aside when necessary.
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Besides, how can you not love a biracial anesthesiologist raised by hippies who has a heart of gold AND snappy comebacks for her saucy mother-in-law?
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You can start changing discussions about what it means to be biracial and what it means to be black in America and, now in Britain as well.
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Many parents stepped forward and complained that their daughters — who were often either Black or biracial — were being harshly disciplined for wearing braids with extensions to school.
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She told Michael Cragg that being biracial makes her "different" and pointed to the "colorism in the Black community" to explain why it hasn't fully accepted her.
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They are beliefs formed by her upbringing as a biracial woman in America and inspired by her father and a group of powerful women, including Hillary Clinton.
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" According to the autopsy: "The findings describe the girl as possibly black or biracial, between 12 and 17 years old and with no tattoos or identifying marks.
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Twitter permanently banned Nehlen after he posted a photo depicting Prince Harry's biracial fiancée Meghan Markle as "Cheddar Man," a 9,000-year old dark-skinned prehistoric Briton.
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He also regularly points to his experience raising biracial children to show that he is aware of the ways policing can negatively affect black and brown communities.
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Here's what you need to know: • Meghan Markle, an American actress who is biracial and divorced, is set to become the newest addition to Britain's royal family.
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It's directed by Lacey Schwartz (1977), a filmmaker who explored her own black and biracial identity in the 2014 documentary feature "Little White Lie," and Mehret Mandefro.
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He also regularly points to his experience raising biracial children to show that he is aware of the ways policing can negatively affect black and brown communities.
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The facts are these: Ms. Harris, a first-term senator from California and a former prosecutor, is the biracial daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother.
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If Tshego (SEH-ho) is royal-crazy this summer, it is because Ms. Markle is biracial, the daughter of an African-American woman and a white man.
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Pusha T's thesis for "The Story of Adidon" is basically twofold: Drake's confusion about his biracial identity has led him to adopt a hypocritical attitude toward fatherhood.
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But Ms. Markle, the child of a black mother and a white father, is the first person to join the British royal family who identifies as biracial.
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Kaepernick, who is biracial, explained why he didn't vote in last year's election, while a member of the San Francisco 49ers, during a postgame interview last season.
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The performance of the song by a gospel choir inside St. George's Chapel — for the wedding of a biracial princess — only further solidifies its place in history.
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My mother is white and my father is black, and as a social psychologist, I research mixed-race identity and perceptions of biracial people for a living.
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Biracial, "mail-order" Korean infants were removed to the United States by the thousands, sometimes to poorly vetted homes that were unprepared to parent children from another culture.
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Brittany O'Grady plays Simone and told CNN that in addition to also being biracial, she could relate to the dark times her character endures trying to become famous.
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George found unlikely allies in Helen and Tom Willis (Kerry Washington and Will Ferrell), but he lost their support when he challenged the complexities of their biracial relationship.
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She opened up to People about what it was like for her to grow up as a biracial child and how that experience shaped who she is today.
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When rumors of the prince's relationship with Meghan, who is biracial, spread across Britain in 2016, Harry denounced the "racial undertones" of the coverage and social media harassment.
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This month, after taking testimony in public and by e-mail, the 11-member, biracial commission appointed by Mayor Levar Stoney put forward its carefully drawn up recommendations.
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OPRF is home to a diverse blend of students — it's 55% white, 27% Black, 3% Asian, and 6% biracial — that closely mirrors the mixed demographic of America itself.
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But Reid's casting brings a new dimension to the story, by suggesting a connection between Meg's coming-of-age awkwardness and the notorious identity struggles biracial people face.
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" Victoria Solomon, a 2004 BHS grad who identifies as biracial and is the daughter of an immigrant, offered this: "I don't think expelling the kids will solve anything.
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The voices blasting over the radios — or iPhones or, whatever — come from Latinx ladies like Demi Lovato, Camila Cabello, and Selena Gomez or proudly biracial women like Halsey.
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Technically biracial — Franklin's father is a Black man — the two-minute clip shows the teenager expressing his apprehension about his mother subjecting their family to any further scrutiny.
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During her time in the spotlight, Smith advocated for her biracial heritage (her mother was white and her father was African-American) and putting an end to racism.
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Unlike other taxonomies, Dass's project divorced skin tone from ethnicity—Pantone 51-6 C could be a blonde-haired little boy, or a biracial woman with an afro.
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"I think the criticism is even worse now, with the racial tension that we're seeing and the political climate," explains the 38-year-old star, who is biracial.
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The engagement last year of Prince Harry, the sixth in line to the throne, to Meghan Markle, a biracial American actress, was seen by many as a watershed.
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And she talks about the ways in which her light skin (Zendaya is biracial) makes her a more palatable option for casting directors than her darker-skinned peers.
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As Chuck Palmer's daughter Miranda in "American Bitch," young actress Caroline Watters is introduced as the famous writer's daughter, without any mention of the fact that she's biracial.
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Rebecca brought something so important to the project, too — imagine me telling Chanti's story [Chanti is a biracial student working out gender identity and race through spoken word].
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With the 1984 film and album "Purple Rain," he told a fictionalized version of his own story: biracial (although Prince's parents were both African-American), gifted, spectacularly ambitious.
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It's unfair and an "apparent effort to 'other' her -- perhaps due to her being American but also, in a more insidious way, over her biracial heritage," Merrick wrote.
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"People immediately saw this arc of, you know, poverty in Hope, Arkansas, from a biracial family in Hawaii, how really impressive and exciting their stories were," she said.
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Biracial people like Obama became symbols of a post-racial America, people who would serve as "living bridges between races" as the country moved toward a new era.
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As a kid who grew up biracial in a mostly white environment, music was one of the things that helped me stay in touch with who I am.
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The problem lies in the policies, experts say, which don't necessarily take into account an increasingly diverse student body, to the detriment of mostly black and biracial schoolchildren.
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The discussion of biracial identity in Japan got a boost in 2015 when Ariana Miyamoto, who is half-Japanese, half-African-American, won the Miss Universe Japan pageant.
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I had grown up in a biracial family, unrelated to one of my siblings and half-related to others, and I certainly didn't love them half as much.
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You can't expect to benefit from the perks, PR, and fanfare of having a "biracial princess" if she isn't given the space to feel empowered, heard, and accepted.
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When Harry and Meghan announced their engagement, many in the UK heralded the news -- a biracial woman joining the royal family -- as a welcome step towards racial harmony.
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A social studies assignment from Blades Elementary School in Oakville, Missouri, had asked some students, including her biracial son, to imagine that they work in the slave trade.
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Earlier this year a white woman was asked to prove that her 1-year-old biracial son was hers before they could board a Southwest flight in Denver.
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While the prospect of a biracial princess has many in the US excited, others have cautioned against putting too much stock in what the British royal family does.
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Ms. Jones, a freelance writer in New York who has a brown Afro, said she was inspired by her personal struggle with her hair as a biracial woman.
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Biracial people who look physically more like a racial minority group member are going to face systemic problems in our society that I am lucky not to face.
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"I don't see that many historical references or explorations of what it is to live in a biracial identity, especially in history," the 19-year-old told Broadly.
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And, although the singer is biracial (her father is African American and her mother is Italian, Hungarian and Irish) many people also pointed out Halsey's seemingly darker skin tone.
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Both Howard, who is biracial, and Dinnsen, who is white, said repeatedly under oath that Bailey had ignored their commands to show his hands after he crashed his car.
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Growing up in a biracial family, Peele frequently had to code switch, a fact that played a huge part in his upbringing and made a deep impression on him.
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Born to a black mother and a white father just over three decades ago, the biracial comedian witnessed — and was victim to — the effects of governmental discrimination against nonwhites.
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Southwest apologized on Wednesday for asking the mother of a biracial child to prove the baby was hers before boarding a flight — but was the airline in the wrong?
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February's body-hopping Netflix series Altered Carbon does the same thing, in a more thoughtful and canonical fashion, with its biracial antihero Takeshi Kovacs (played, mostly, by Joel Kinnaman).
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Diggs' character is also from Crenshaw originally and now lives in Beverly Hills with his white wife, Latina housekeeper, and two biracial children who also attend the high school.
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"I've been traveling for years now and it's been so frustrating that the hotel industry entirely alienates people of color," the singer, who is biracial, tweeted on April 26.
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We find hints of tension and unease: Curran Hatleberg's nighttime shot of an elderly white couple glowering at a biracial couple in front of a garish, overgrown azalea bush.
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Also many criticized the love story for not reflecting the fact that most biracial children at the time were the product of rape of black women by slave owners.
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The maker of Cup Noodle and Top Ramen, Japan's Nissin Foods, has pulled ads featuring biracial tennis player Naomi Osaka after critics said they "whitewashed" her natural skin tone.
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They've also removed the "Battle of Liberty Place" monument, which was in honor of the white Confederate veterans who rebelled against the biracial local government during the Reconstruction era.
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The 22-year-old pop star (real name: Ashley Frangipane), who has been vocal about her own biracial background, told The Guardian that she wouldn't consider collaborating with Azalea.
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In 2017, Ava, a biracial single mother, takes a job as caretaker for her wealthy white grandmother, against the advice of her black mother, who inherited Josephine's otherworldly powers.
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He intended it to be an ideally integrated community, and the first baby born to a Columbia family, in 463, was biracial, with one black and one white parent.
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Students become like major corporations that sponsor Pride floats for employees or air heartening commercials of workers' biracial families, then adopt practices that make those peoples' lives more precarious.
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A country where the biracial son of a single mother from Hawaii and the son of a single mother from Arkansas can both make it to the White House.
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As the New York Times reported, on August 22009 a group of white teens in the town of Claremont, New Hampshire, attacked an 22012-year old black biracial boy.
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The exhibition contains two banners from her earlier Mulatto Nation series exploring the contradiction between perceptions of biracial people by others and their own internalizations of their mixed heritage.
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The warmth with which the royal family announced the marriage underscores just how much the British royal family has changed: Ms. Markle, an American actress, is biracial and divorced.
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"Sometimes I feel like she wants me to be lame," Earn says to Dave, the boyfriend of Christina, Van's friend and the only other biracial woman at the event.
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Their biracial family's prominence played a large role in his 2013 bid for mayor; a pivotal campaign ad featured his son, Dante, whose giant Afro gained its own following.
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They have two children and their biracial family's prominence, particularly their son Dante's Afro, in the 2013 campaign is widely seen as vaulting Mr. de Blasio to the mayoralty.
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Last year, Prince Harry lashed out at the racial undertones of British tabloid coverage of Ms. Markle, who is biracial and divorced, as not being British enough for him.
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But the most extraordinary thing he has done is to marry Ms. Markle, an American actress who is three years his senior, biracial, divorced and vocal about her views.
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And the undercurrent beneath all of it is that she is a biracial American, a stark contrast to the royal family's history of marrying their white, posh British peers.
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And so in these times, when a British prince goes against both royal and societal norms to propose to his biracial girlfriend, it's worth taking a moment to smile.
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The half-Indian, half-Italian artist uses her camera to explore what it means to be biracial and queer, and Haque saw her own background reflected in Romagnoli's work.
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It's worth noting that in addition to Crawford's win in 2010, one other recent Miss Teen USA has been a woman of color — 2012 winner Logan West is biracial.
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As a biracial Japanese, Osaka's leap into the limelight has brought hope to some "haafu," or half-Japanese, who have suffered discrimination and bullying in a largely ethnically homogenous country.
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In an essay for Elle UK, she detailed how difficult it was for her to find her identity, especially in the light of being a biracial woman, and it's inspiring.
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During her interview with Mock, Kardashian said she is very aware of how important it is for her biracial daughter, North West, to be around people who look like her.
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The 41-year-old daughter of actress Peggy Lipton and music mogul Quincy Jones recalls that growing up "there wasn't a ton of representation for biracial people" such as herself.
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His good looks, racial fluidity, and vague internationalism—qualities shared by other prominent "biracial" public figures, from Drake to President Obama—help render him appealing to multiple, overlapping American audiences.
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Namely, the belief that we are a biracial society in which blacks and white are equal members is a recent idea, first embraced in the middle of the twentieth century.
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Most of my friends were white, and my best friend was biracial—Nigerian and white—and I don't know, you're just surrounded in whiteness basically with everything that you consume.
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At its center, our hero, Nellie Forbush, must confront her own internalized racism when she learns that the new love of her life has biracial children from a previous marriage.
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Instead, that honor went to Asian-American biracial tech wizard John Graham, who has been affectionately nicknamed "Venmo John" for the 28-year-old's involvement in the app's fledgling stages.
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Other men came home alone and settled down with a Nigerian woman, and then many years later a biracial American or European would turn up and say, You're my father.
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Mr. Khurana, a 33-year-old corporate and securities lawyer, is the product of a biracial marriage himself (his father is Indian, his mother is half Filipino and half Chinese).
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The 32-year-old grandson of Queen Elizabeth II blasted British news and social media coverage for the "outright sexism and racism" unleashed on his biracial American girlfriend, Meghan Markle.
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No one represents this anti-establishment spirituality and mistrust of mainstream politics better than Micah White, who is biracial and one of the founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Kaepernick, who is biracial, has been steadfast in his protest, speaking at length on numerous occasions about his views on the mistreatment of African-Americans and other minorities in America.
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State authorities in New Hampshire are investigating the reported attempted lynching of an 8-year-old biracial boy by teenagers as a possible hate crime, according to a new report.
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When my husband and I moved here with our two school-age children two years ago, we enrolled them in an international school, where many of their classmates are biracial.
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After being disowned, my mom immersed her children in her new New Jersey black-American community as she believed this community would be the most accepting of her biracial children.
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Today, just over 50 percent of Brazilians identify as black or biracial, and many Brazilians say there is a racial harmony here that does not exist in the United States.
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People of color are underrepresented in British politics and not represented in the British monarchy, so having a biracial woman in the royal family gives many a reason to celebrate.
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It was hoped that the union of a beautiful biracial American actress and one of the world's favorite princes would firmly nudge the British royal family into a new era.
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Samantha White (Logan Browning) is trying to figure out her racial identity and her hair plays a role in how she self-identifies — and how divided she feels being biracial.
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Reconstruction was the nation's first great experiment in biracial democracy, with hundreds of thousands of black men able to vote for the first time, and significant numbers holding elective office.
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Set in the future, in a deeply racist American South, the story's narrator is a black lawyer who goes to extraordinary lengths to protect his biracial son from experiencing racism.
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As an introverted, bookish, biracial child, Kristil was subjected to bullying at school, and the fact that we had to move so many times as I changed jobs didn't help.
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As an introverted, bookish, biracial child, Kristil was subjected to bullying at school, and the fact that we had to move so many times as I changed jobs didn't help.
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I'm partial because Zendaya's MJ is a low-voiced, deadpan, biracial weirdo like me — but also because she is considered legitimately attractive, a girl Peter has to really chase for.
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Growing up in the late '80s as a biracial girl, I never had a mixed-race prince or princess whose image I could sport on my backpack or my lunchbox.
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Chatting with Janet Mock for the interview, Kardashian West, 36, opened up about raising her children with husband Kanye West in the spotlight – and talking with her daughter about being biracial.
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A light-skinned biracial American woman named Taylor, who for years had clung with love to her African roots, has a temporary identity crisis when she learns about this contemporary slavery.
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Yesterday, however, Black women, biracial women, marginalized women, and women who are simply other went from outsiders to having a seat at the royal table — in front of millions of people.
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They've become proponents of adoption and previously told People that their son being biracial hasn't come up in the way they raise him, only in how the public looks at them.
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The 18-year-old is starring in Amma Asante's (Belle) 2017 film Where Hands Touch, about a biracial teen in Nazi Germany who falls for a Hitler Youth member, per Variety.
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The casting made clear that she was making good on that promise: Meg is now biracial, played by 14-year-old Storm Reid, and Mindy Kaling and Oprah Winfrey play Mrs.
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" A biracial girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, who is part black and part Chinese, was told by a white classmate to "go back home to whatever country you're from.
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After a biracial couple was turned down for a sublet in the upscale Beekman Place neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, the couple claimed they were victims of racial discrimination.
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He satisfies this predilection by visiting strip clubs where he can pay Sierra—a biracial dancer who looks white but has inherited her black mother's booty—to dance in his lap.
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" While this might seem merely playful, it caused an uproar, with one of the Housewives calling Robyn "racially obsessed" and saying Dixon was biracial "as if it was a fighting word.
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Prince Harry, the 32-year-old grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, blasted British news coverage and social media trolls for the "outright sexism and racism" unleashed against his biracial American girlfriend.
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As one of the 19 percent of the country that is white, straight, male, and over 45, he understands the fear of being forgotten by the new biracial female millennial regime.
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In this 24-page comic, Whitney, a biracial woman in her twenties, visits her father, Manny, who has become obsessed with an Illuminati-tinged conspiracy about world domination by lizard people.
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Kaepernick, who is biracial and was adopted by white parents, first caused an uproar late last month when he remained seated before a 49ers preseason game with the Green Bay Packers.
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It's both a nod to the sonnet and to the age of her female protagonist, a biracial "nerd-jock" struggling to fit in as she navigates the bewildering flux of adolescence.
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Both of our biracial children attended a specialized high school in the early 2000s and both benefited greatly from free prep programs offered by the New York City Department of Education.
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" Frank, a biracial mother of two who lives with her husband at an Army base, added that she "was more equipped to speak to people on the level that they need.
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Ms. Harris, an Air Force veteran who is biracial and a lesbian, challenged Senator Tom Carper, a Delaware institution, from the left but captured only about 35 percent of the vote.
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In a rare public statement, delivered on Instagram, the rapper, who is biracial, said that his poses in blackface were a commentary on race from his days as a young actor.
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Here, it's worth remembering that Barack Obama, son of a Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, wasn't only the nation's first black president, he was also its first biracial president.
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Trump's history of repeating the birther lie is a strong candidate because it involved the first biracial president, which is the likely reason Trump perpetuated it, given his political modus operandi.
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But internet competition and social media activity have accelerated and coarsened coverage of the prince's relationship with a divorced, biracial woman who was already in the public eye as an actress.
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Another aspect of the baby's identity also tied up in ideas of heritage, and also in receipt of excited global attention, is his position as the first contemporary biracial royal by birth.
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Their parents, Justin and Ami McClure, have also garnered their own following, due to their many videos, pictures and openness when discussing their biracial relationship (Justin is white and Ami is black).
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Slattery, the child's grandmother, said it wasn't the first time the boy, who is biracial, has been the victim of racist language, and claims the word "lynched" was used during the incident.
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While most of the original quotes in Vanity Fair's cover story are focused on Markle's man, author Sam Kashner did well to mention her background as a biracial woman from Los Angeles.
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It's of course impossible to predict whether Lincoln's survival might have meant a cleaner path to reunion and reconciliation, and toward the truly equal biracial society that has eluded us ever since.
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"For years and years of being biracial and feeling like I'm not Black enough, I'm not white, my husband's white, I'm a sell out, my mom's white, my dad's Black," she says.
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When he first began dating the "Suits" actress, who is biracial, he slammed the "wave of abuse and harassment" he said Markle had been subject to since news of their romance broke.
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The Liberty Monument, which honored the Crescent City White League, a group of whites who tried to overthrow a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans, was taken down last month.
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At the time, the racial diversity was pretty good, because usually lesbians are—they had a lot of white women on the show—but they had Bette dealing with some biracial issues.
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" When Lahren slammed Kaepernick's kneeling during the national anthem, Noah, who is biracial like the NFL star, asked, "What is the right way for a black person to get attention in America?
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In many ways, Markle's upcoming entry into the UK's Monarchy is radical: She's a biracial American self-described feminist who has advocated for women and people of color on and off screen.
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"People may not be using terms like 'pangender' or 'biracial' in fifty years, much less two thousand," he writes, either unaware or indifferent to the fact that this terminology was hard-won.
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The 32-year-old grandson of Queen Elizabeth II blasted British news coverage and social media trolls for the "outright sexism and racism" unleashed on his biracial American girlfriend, Meghan Markle, above.
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The study, "The Role of Gender, Class, and Religion in Biracial Americans' Racial Labeling Decisions," is based on data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey from 113, 2002 and 2003.
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Many believe Markle, who identifies as biracial, is dealing with the same scrutiny as she navigates her new role and attempts to put forth an agenda for her civic work and legacy.
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For decades Saar has looked behind the veil of superficial appearance, to explore the emotional conflict underlying mistaken identity from the perspective of a biracial woman who looks white – but feels black.
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Markman steered the discussion to some deeper cuts from Carey's songwriting career—Lambily favorites such as "Outside" or "Close My Eyes," which deal with her turbulent childhood and struggles growing up biracial.
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It's really an heir to Richard Scarry's Busytown books, updated with groovy, neon-bright digital art — somewhere between Hello Kitty and the Jetsons — and a biracial girl named Frankie at the center.
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She set out to "feminize" the movie, about a headstrong middle schooler — in this case, a biracial girl — who searches for her missing scientist father and saves the universe from encroaching evil.
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The writer and activist Rebecca Walker (1969) told "The Loving Generation" director Lacey Schwartz last month that she believes biracial and mixed-race fluidity has led to significant cultural and political contributions.
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The regal biracial teen in "A Child of the Olympics" is one of many children born of relationships between Russians and non-Russians who met during the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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Fuller House is a little better in this regard — Kimmy's ex-husband is Latino, and, thus, her daughter Ramona is biracial — but that "little" is literally the smallest "little" in the world.
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In playing under the flag of an island nation noted for its racial homogeneity, Osaka challenges assumptions about whether and under what circumstances a biracial person might be accepted as truly Japanese.
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Drake — whose mom is Jewish and whose father, Graham, is a black Catholic — has spoken often about his biracial identity, sometimes as a positive and sometimes as a negative, and sometimes both.
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When their daughter, who is biracial, posed with the beloved movie character, the actor can be seen making an upside-down "OK" symbol with his hand in footage obtained by USA Today.
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Others have cautioned that the mere presence of a biracial princess will do little to remedy racism in Britain or to erase the historical role of the royal family in that racism.
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Later, a group of neo-Nazis — including Heimbach, one of the big names in the "movement" — was seen on video in an altercation with a biracial couple outside a pub near Nashville.
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Mikhail is also biracial — I'm white and his father is black – and I knew within our family that he wouldn't have to deal with any issues regarding his race because we're very diverse.
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A humanitarian and self-described foodie, Markle recently penned an Elle U.K. essay about growing up biracial and how the way she looked made casting directors unwilling to book her for early jobs.
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A woman in Baraboo, who spoke to me on the condition that I not use her name, is the mother of two biracial children at Jack Young Middle School, which feeds Baraboo High.
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"He looks like he just returned from dropping off our biracial children to Montessori school and surprised me with vegan donuts," user @Bilalipaup tweeted in a long and beautiful thread about the photo.
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Things only get worse when he calls biracial Sam a mutt and a bitch, and suggests that Joelle isn't good enough for him because she isn't acting like the Nubian queen she is.
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"I'm biracial; I didn't know that until I was 7 or 8 years old," the country newcomer, 25, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, opening up about his amazing journey to Nashville stardom.
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" She continues: "Being a biracial girl, and my family being every ethnicity, and seeing someone succeeding that looking like me — I don't think I realized like the power of representation at that point.
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Colton's seven remaining contestants are five blonde white women, a blonde-ish, biracial Kirpa Sudick (who is half Indian if retweets are to be taken as fact), and Tayshia Adams, a Black woman.
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" On the campaign trail he criticized former President Barack Obama's black identity and connection with the African American community because of his biracial and bicultural heritage, calling it "a bit of a stretch.
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These ideas were even ingrained in my biracial father, who had once discouraged me from dating other races by warning me of the discrimination and identity issues my kids would have to face.
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Which is why seeing how Markle blossomed on the world stage to become an advocate for women, speaking out about her biracial background, and becoming a humanitarian for so many, is no surprise.
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As a divorced woman, an American, and as a biracial woman, Markle has received outsize media scrutiny and, at times, hostility from within the royal family itself, as Vox's Anna North points out.
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It was particularly valuable to have the accounts of his biracial daughter's experience of his inauguration and private visits in Orangeburg during which she [at] first was proud of his anti-lynching stand.
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The book sets the Obama era beside Reconstruction and the Trump era beside the white supremacist terrorism of Redemption, the period beginning in 1877 during which Reconstruction's nascent, biracial democracy was largely dismantled.
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The Maryland-born rapper Logic's stage name offers a clue to how he approaches music: His albums resemble densely plotted dissertations on religion, politics, his own biracial identity and dozens of other topics.
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Strom Thurmond, who had run for President as a segregationist but also was later revealed to have a secret biracial daughter, helped her get an interview and land a new job, Harrison says.
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Barris argued that Ruby—a zany character who makes remarks like "Not now, hybrid!" to her biracial daughter-in-law—had begun dominating the show, even though she doesn't live in Dre's house.
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Indeed, the ruling classes in both the North and South were sufficiently alarmed at the prospect of a biracial coalition of workers and farmers to undertake serious measures to thwart or preempt it.
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Thankfully, we have answers on Ares' viscous black shame well, the disturbing transformation of biracial, working-class medical student Rosa Steenwijk (Jade Olieberg), Dutch slave trade history, and how it all comes together.
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But as the biracial black and Jewish writer Adam Serwer points out, Mallory herself knew few Jewish people growing up in Harlem, in a culture where Farrakhan was credited with providing community policing.
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Born in 22007 in Syracuse, Ms. WalkingStick was the child of a biracial marriage: "Syracuse Girl Weds Cherokee Indian" was the headline on the report of her parents' wedding in the local newspaper.
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Guillory, who is black, sees the upcoming royal wedding — and the entry of a biracial woman into the royal family — as a ray of sunshine in a dark time for people of color.
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A month later, Lena Dunham received backlash after defending her colleague, Murray Miller, when biracial actress Aurora Perrineau opened up about an alleged sexual assault that happened with Miller when she was 17.
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have officially welcomed not only the first British American baby born into the royal family, but the first biracial baby in modern history for the royal family too.
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She was the biracial role model I needed, and I often thought of her when I struggled with the constant denial and questioning I faced whenever I told someone I was part black.
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Meghan Markle: 5 things about Prince Harry's love interest In November he warned the press against harassing his American girlfriend, who has been stalked by paparazzi and targeted by trolls regarding her biracial heritage.
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She's become the trademark heroine in an opposites-attract fairy tale: a trans-Atlantic romance between a Yank and a Brit, a commoner and a prince, a biracial black woman and a white man.
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In addition to her biracial son, she's also a mother to four other kids — all of whom were staying together at a rental property when the vandalism took place and the note was left.
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It was erected in 1891 to mark a deadly fight between members of the "Crescent City White League," a group opposed to the city's biracial police force and state militia after the Civil War.
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Charlotte's racial background can't be entirely confirmed, but it seems that thanks to Ramsay and his many portraits of Charlotte, according to PBS, her status as the first-ever biracial royal has been cemented.
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In late April, the city removed the Liberty Place Monument, which has been erected in 1891 to honor the Crescent City White League, a group that ousted a biracial government after the Civil War.
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Aoukar, a Lebanese-born woman in finance in the Middle East, and Bowes-Little, a biracial founder and former part-time hip-hop artist known as Metis, see their unique backgrounds as an advantage.
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Safran has plenty of experience dealing with police misconduct: In 2012, he settled the case of Frank Jude, Jr., a biracial man who was brutally beaten by off-duty cops outside of a party.
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In mid-August, Netflix gave us the heartstring-pulling romantic saga of Lara Jean Covey (Lana Condor), a biracial Korean-American teen girl, in the very flirty To All The Boys I've Loved Before.
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"I always recall my first experience in a multi-cultural salon and a colleague attempted to de-tangle a biracial child's hair with a rat-tail comb and barely any conditioner," Damtew told Insider.
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In a statement, the 32-year-old grandson of Queen Elizabeth II blasted British news coverage and social media trolls for the "outright sexism and racism" unleashed on his biracial American girlfriend, Meghan Markle.
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Under congressional Reconstruction, the Southern states were divided into military zones to be occupied and administered by the armed forces while they rewrote their constitutions and rebuilt new biracial governments for all their citizens.
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As Nene gets older, Mama Pants talks to her about the complexity behind mixed racial identities (Nene's father is biracial), and she treats her daughter's crushes on both boys and girls with equal weight.
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In 2008, Armisen, whose mother is Venezuelan and whose father is of German and Korean heritage, told New York Magazine's Intelligencer column that he wore honey colored makeup to portray Obama, who is biracial.
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In Britain, the unlikely pairing between a beautiful American actress, who happens to be, like Obama, the product of a biracial union, and Britain's most cherished tribal identity — the royal family — raised another conundrum.
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Meghan Markle, whose biracial parentage made headlines after her engagement to Prince Harry, starred in two Hallmark movies; in the Fourth of July romance "When Sparks Fly," from 123, her character had white parents.
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Mr. de Blasio said he believed that, because of his biracial family, he may have an ability to connect better with the black voters who make up a large portion of the state's electorate.
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Recently, my collaborators and I documented this negative perception — less trust and more dislike — that people have of biracial individuals who are seen as contextually claiming one of their racial identities over the other.
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But the royal interloper, who chided Meghan about her TV career, biracial background and even her biological clock, did represent a lot of the criticism the couple was facing when they took their relationship public.
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On Thursday, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star reached out to her legions of followers on Twitter to see if they could help her find the perfect biracial baby doll for her only child.
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Conversation is still swirling around an episode last weekend in Denver in which a white woman was asked to prove that her one-year-old biracial son was hers before they could board a plane.
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The story begins in 2017 as Ava, a biracial single mom, moves into her white grandmother's mansion in New Orleans, hoping to connect to her grandmother as a way of connecting to her absent father.
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A third banner, "Fez" (2004), is from her series of portraits of biracial prostitutes in western colonial countries who turned to the oldest profession because they were rejected by both worlds from which they descended.
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There is an essay called "Why I'm Not Afraid to Be Called Feminine," about masculinity in black culture, and; a story about a biracial man who came to understand his mother through Korean skin care.
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Her own research has shown that biracial infants, growing up with exposure to both Asian and white faces, are faster at scanning faces by 3 months than children growing up with only one such group.
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I am also biracial, and after the episode aired, I definitely had a lot of people, both in real life and on Twitter, reach out and say they had never really heard that conversation before.
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These artists, especially Édouard Manet, heard the call to be "painters of modern life," issued by his friend, the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire, whose longtime companion was Jeanne Duval, a tall, willful biracial former actress.
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Born in New Mexico to parents who immigrated from India, married to a white man and raising a biracial child in New York City, Jacob explores the tensions through talks with her relatives and others.
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Even more important, he's amazing with Sloan's daughters, 6-year-old twins; thanks to his experience taking care of his younger half sisters, he even knows how to wash and braid the biracial girls' hair.
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Yes, I'm biracial like Meghan Markle, black like Meghan Markle, but I told myself I would watch a couple minutes of the royal hoopla — catch a glimpse of that dress, maybe — and then carry on.
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Despite her packed schedule, she made some time to chat with PEOPLE about balancing her successful show, her family life and how "it's a blessing" raising her "biracial babies": daughters, Danika, 10, and Bella, 12.
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A month later, the biracial teenage son of a local teacher and activist was set upon by four neo-Nazi youths; they taunted him with references to Hitler and left him with a fractured skull.
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She was talking about the horror-movie-cum-racial-commentary written and directed by her husband, Jordan Peele, which follows a biracial couple who visit the home of the girlfriend's white family, where terror ensues.
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Arguably our greatest president, Lincoln does not need to be vindicated or defended, and there is not the slightest bit of evidence on which to claim that Lincoln wanted or welcomed a biracial United States.
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Ironically, even though this was a well-known legend in my family, when I decided to wed a biracial (Native American and black) jazz musician in the 20153s, my father had an issue with it.
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" Seventy-two Parliament members echoed Harry's remarks in an open letter a few weeks later, condemning the tabloids' coverage of Meghan — who is biracial and divorced from her first husband — as having "outdated, colonial undertones.
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Beyond the support Mr. de Blasio has received from the unions, he has maintained the loyalty of black voters, ever since his campaign four years ago introduced his family, which is biracial, to the world.
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Thus, as a result of being biracial, they told us that they felt that they had to become "even more Jewish" to demonstrate to their skeptical questioners that they were indeed members of that tribe.
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After taking the PSAT in high school, I remember feeling confused after receiving an award in the mail honoring me for being a black person — not a biracial person — who scored highly on the exam.
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Six Feet Under's biracial duo of David Fisher (Dexter's Michael C. Hall) and Keith Charles (Mathew St. Patrick) adopted a pair of children during the final season of their HBO dark comedy, which aired in 2005.
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By contrast, some critics have viewed his actions as undermining American patriotism, while others deride his income and his biracial heritage to suggest he's entering a fight he's not qualified to take on as his own.
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"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick, who is biracial and was adopted by white parents, said afterwards.
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T Kira Madden's highly anticipated debut memoir is about coming of age in Boca Raton as a queer biracial young woman, living simultaneously in worlds of massive privilege, thanks to her family wealth, and deep alienation.
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The US Open final this weekend will feature two American women; one black (Sloane Stephens, who beat 37-year-old Venus Williams to get there) and one biracial (Madison Keys, who does not call herself black).
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The actress, who is biracial, says she didn't realize it was such a big deal that her grandmother, The Jeffersons actress Roxie Roker, was married to filmmaker Sy Kravitz, who was white, until she was older.
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Rowlands, the biracial daughter of two immigrants, is immediately recognizable in any crowd at the convention — you just need to look for a thick wave of curly black hair amongst the largely white, largely male crowd.
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The episode, titled "Champaign Papi," had a scene where a darker skinned black woman angrily confronts a white woman about her biracial relationship in a way that some viewers believed perpetuated the angry black woman trope.
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Seen through the prism of its central couple, it's blessed with the uplifting hallmarks of an old-fashioned "feel-good" movie, exploring anti-miscegenation laws that persisted for years after the birth of America's biracial president.
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"By adding blues tone to some fast country runs, and yoking them to a rhythm-and-blues beat and some unembarrassed electrification, he created an instrumental style with biracial appeal," explained famed rock critic Robert Christgau.
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In season two, we also discover that Kat, who is biracial, has always struggled to identify as a black woman, because she fears that doing so will erase her mother, who is white, from her backstory.
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Growing up, I've only ever seen decks that featured white faces, which is sort of ironic because the illustrator of the most popular tarot deck (Rider-Waite tarot), Pamela Colman Smith, is suggested to be biracial.
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While hardly free of racism, it had its share of prominent black and biracial figures, among them Alexandre Dumas, made rich and famous by his plays and by novels like "The Three Musketeers," published in 1844.
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After all, two of Roseanne's grandkids are a biracial little girl (DJ's daughter with his yet-unseen, military-deployed black wife) and a boy who seems not terribly comfortable with his place on the gender spectrum.
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This is partly because I have been a fan of Ms. Markle's since her 2011 debut on USA's "Suits," and watched as both she and her character, Rachel, adroitly took on the complexity of biracial identity.
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"Little Boxes," a mildly comic story about a biracial family that relocates to an exceedingly white town, feels a bit out of phase, but it's delicately observed and does a nice job of staying within itself.
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On Sunday night in Florida, a Cape Coral couple was harassed by a person over their Ring camera who made racist comments about their biracial family, revealing that he had likely been watching them for days.
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In a 2012 video for the charity Erase The Hate, the then-actress said "so much of my life has felt like being a fly on the wall" because people were unaware that she was biracial.
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But Jones learned that finding it on the market was harder than timing a joke: "I was always in-between shades, and because I'm biracial, I have a green tone under my skin as well," she says.
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Jephson, who knew Harry when he was a boy, believes Diana would have plenty of helpful advice for Markle, a biracial American actress who has previously been married and is breaking barriers by joining the royal family.
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Christopher Demos-Brown, whose previous works include "Fear Up Harsh" and "When the Sun Shone Brighter," was the other recipient, for "American Son," which explores the country's racial divide through the lens of an estranged, biracial couple.
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The Isn't It Romantic actress, 36, addressed the negative commentary surrounding Meghan since marrying into the royal family in a new interview with The Sunday Times, and said much of it is due to her biracial heritage.
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Chilling Effect MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee residents were outraged when they learned, about three months after the fact, that a biracial man at a party had been severely beaten by several white off-duty police officers also in attendance.
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"Collected Poems: 1974-2004" somewhat curiously omits Ms. Dove's most recent book, "Sonata Mulattica" (2009), about the life of the biracial violinist George Bridgetower, perhaps because that volume is more a book-length poem than a collection.
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A Queer, Biracial Coming-of-Age Memoir Is Equal Parts Pain and Pleasure T Kira Madden's debut, "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls," recalls a troubled childhood in chapters as fragmented as her family life was.
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The biracial French director Mati Diop, 36, made the movie in Dakar, Senegal, where her uncle, Djibril Diop Mambéty, set his landmark postcolonial film, "Touki Bouki" (1973), about two young lovers who dream of leaving for Paris.
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Where is it written that a man cannot represent women, or a white person cannot represent people of color, or a 70-year-old cannot represent millennials or a gay white man cannot represent straight biracial Americans?
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That same year, critics and audiences also fell in love with Shameik Moore's bid as Miles Morales in Sony's animated masterpiece "Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse," which featured a biracial portrayal of the classic comic book character.
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Even though he watched four of his own biracial children by Sally Hemings grow up at Monticello, Jefferson went to his grave believing that blacks and whites could never live together in harmony in the United States.
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A recent essay in The Times described the creativity and mental flexibility of biracial people; critics took issue with it, arguing that race-blending is not the antidote to white supremacy, that hapas won't save the world.
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For many, this marriage has added import because of who Markle is: a biracial American woman, divorced, older than her fiancé, and famous in her own right as an actress before she linked up with a prince.
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The history of biracial couplings and children in our country is fraught: The "one drop" rule that categorized people with any African ancestry as "colored" was legally codified in a couple of states in the early 1900s.
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This episode, I talk to Blake to learn about their experiences growing up biracial and queer in New York, going to school in Southern California, their formative years in San Francisco, and their return to New York.
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Abortion opponents "think it's clever to compare abortion to slavery or the Holocaust ... yet they fail to look at what actually happened during those times," said reproductive justice advocate Renee Bracey Sherman, who is a biracial black woman.
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AUSTIN DOVE, CRIMINAL AND CIVIL ATTORNEY: Well, other than the fact that it&aposs kind of trite to say just because their ethnicity is similar in terms of being biracial, they are obviously both from the Democratic Party.
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But the tabloids have also published scathing attacks on the family's lifestyle and private lives, with some focusing on Meghan's estranged relatives and the change she brings — as a divorced, biracial American actress — to Britain's staid royal family.
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The family of an 8-year-old biracial boy in Claremont, New Hampshire, said a group of teenagers hurled rocks at him, called him racially charged words, and then pulled a rope around his neck and hung him.
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So I doodled my own race of children with a biracial mom and Jewish dad and gigantic features; as I grew older, I realized the story didn't imply that beauty was granted only to those born a swan.
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"I have this thing where I just feel I can be anyone," she tells host Henry Louis Gates Jr. of being the biracial daughter of the late soul singer Minnie Riperton and music composer and producer Richard Rudolph.
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The company will introduce a biracial, same-sex couple in an upcoming episode of its animated series Loud House, making it the first show in Nickelodeon history to feature a married, same-sex couple, according to Entertainment Weekly.
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The biracial son of a Ghanaian economics professor, Mensa isn't as smart as he thinks he is—"Everybody tryna be American idols/My X factor is I'm the only one with the voice" is supposed to be clever?
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Kaepernick, who is biracial and was adopted by white parents, said he had discussed his feelings with his family and, after months of witnessing civil unrest, had decided to become more active, according to the NFL Media report.
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But that body type may be especially out of reach for many Asian American men, who on average are smaller than other races (although there are significant differences within the "Asian American" grouping, including biracial men like Stoick).
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"All the artists draw inspiration from their personal narratives, family intimacy, bicultural and biracial identities in their work, and they will share how their work responds to the other pieces in the show and the theme," she added.
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The officers were angry that a few months earlier Mr. de Blasio had the audacity to say that the Garner case made him think of the possibility of losing his biracial son in an encounter with the police.
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In a statement, Ms. Beck, who is biracial and married to a woman, said there was "no other outlet" that had spoken to her more than Jezebel after she graduated from Mills College, a women's college in California.
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"When you think how much that statue could have meant to young women, particularly ones of color, biracial and different ethnic backgrounds who've never seen their image in public on any statue or in any museum," she said.
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The prince's first confirmation of his relationship came in an unusual statement in November 2016, in which he condemned the "racial undertones" of stories about Meghan, who is biracial, and "the outright sexism and racism" of comments online.
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Smalls lived long enough to see the end of Reconstruction, defending civil and voting rights at the 1895 state constitutional convention that disfranchised African-Americans, and maintaining a rare biracial alliance in Beaufort until his death in 1915.
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But he found a way to wed his liberalism to the cause of racial equality by pushing the Southern Regional Council, a politically moderate biracial civic and business group in Atlanta, into a more aggressive civil-rights role.
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And I'm not saying that Meghan Markle and Barack Obama and other celebrities should be removed from the black community and added to the biracial community; racial identity is not and should not be a zero-sum game.
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The New York Times called it a "gut-wrenching misfire," while Jezebel lamented the missed opportunity to really hone in on the struggles faced by the very real, and often overlooked community of biracial Germans, sans troubling love story.
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Both affected who Kat turned out to be: a biracial black woman afraid of admitting the impact that being black has on who she is and how the world perceives her, whether she's ready to admit it or not.
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Yet the reboot's pilot, it is hinted oldest sister Macy Vaughn (Tomorrow People alum Madeleine Mantock) is biracial, while younger sister Mel (Fruitvale Station's Melonie Diaz) and Maggie Vera (Jennifer Lopez's Shades Of Blue daughter Sarah Jeffery) are Latinx.
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Princess Michael of Kent sparked fury when she showed up to the Queen's Christmas lunch wearing a racially tinged blackamoor brooch — on the day Meghan Markle, who is biracial, was formally introduced to the royal family by Prince Harry.
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In part a response to Hollywood censors of the day, which forbade lips lingering in a kiss for more than three seconds, upon its release the work was considered especially provocative for its depiction of biracial and homosexual pairings.
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Meghan has spoken in the past of her biracial background, and both she and Harry have spoken out against racism — including Harry's rare public statement in 2016 condemning what he viewed as racist attacks on Meghan in the press.
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In Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man is biracial — Morales's parents are black and Puerto Rican — so the movie's success (or lack thereof) inevitably becomes a data point in the ongoing conversation around the entertainment industry's commitment to diversity.
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Kaepernick, who is biracial and was adopted by white parents, said he had discussed his feelings with his family and, after months of witnessing recent civil unrest, he decided to be more active, according to the NFL Media report.
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"Weddings like this allow people to think about what does it mean when the most exclusive royal families and one of the oldest in Europe decides that they're accepting a biracial American woman into their family," Ms. Drake said.
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Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor Born: May 212, 212 What to know: In a significant milestone both across the Commonwealth and within British society, baby Archie has made history by becoming the first biracial British child in the royal family.
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MORE, who came from a biracial family but made a conscious decision to identify himself as a champion of black America, Oprah consciously made her media fortune by identifying herself with her fan base, which was primarily white America.
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Mixed-ish has the potential to really showcase what it's like to be biracial and feel lost in the world, and if it does so with the same pathos and humor as Black-ish, it could be something special.
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The multiracial demographic reflects one of the fastest-growing groups in the US and in the UK. The fact that there is now a biracial child in the British royal family perfectly highlights the diversity influencing our entire world.
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His shifting trans-genre amalgam of funk and rock and pop and R&B was so original that he long pretended he was biracial even though both his hard-working failed-singer mother and his scuffling pianist father were African-American.
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We might also see studios that own Marvel characters' film rights, like Sony and Fox, tell more of those stories; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which centers on a new biracial Spider-Man named Miles Morales, comes out this week.
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But as both a Black woman, a biracial woman, and a woman, period, I am bursting with pride at the way she is indeed realizing the magnitude of her actions and using her overwhelmingly large new platform to create change.
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Fauna, who grew up as Pat in Nevada, and has always thought she was biracial, recently found out that her grandfather is a rich, powerful LA doctor named George Hodel (Jefferson Mays) who paid her mother (Golden Brooks) to adopt her.
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Pub date: June 4 T Kira Madden's highly anticipated debut memoir is about coming of age in Boca Raton as a queer biracial young woman, living simultaneously in worlds of massive privilege, thanks to her family wealth, and deep alienation.
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D.J. Conner (Michael Fishman) will have a biracial daughter named Mary Conner (Jayden Rey), while the son of Darlene Conner (Sara Gilbert) will be a little boy named Mark (Ames McNamara), who enjoys dressing in feminine clothing like dresses and skirts.
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Now she is selling to royal fans worldwide dolls dressed in outfits she designed and made that she thinks Prince Harry and his biracial bride might wear when they walk down the aisle at Windsor Castle in England on May 19.
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With his marriage, Prince Harry — who has said he would never want to become king, though he is sixth in line — has showed Britons that if his royal kin can embrace a biracial woman, they can open their minds as well.
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The child of a white mother and a black father, Mr. Williams told The Guardian last October that his parents had shaped his activist roots, and said that being biracial allowed him to see both sides of a cultural divide.
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I am biracial, and bisexual, and trying to pass as anything but has always been just a way of tricking myself into feeling safe, as if being conventionally beautiful and vaguely approved of by white people was a form of freedom.
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If the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton was a rare instance in which a commoner wed the heir to the throne, this royal wedding will herald the Windsors' (relatively radical, if expected) embrace of a divorced and biracial American.
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"It's an extremely important history that was literally forgotten about for 100 years because a biracial movement with African Americans as leading agents and motivators and financiers just didn't fit with Americans living in long, long Jim Crow era," he said.
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With the cult gone, Rainbow and her family have to enter the "real world" and learn what it means to be biracial — a concept she and her siblings hadn't even heard of before being thrust into suburban life in the 1980s.
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Priests once enjoyed great social and political power in Ireland, but the abuse scandal led to "the demise of the church," the center-right prime minister, Leo Varadkar, who is 38, biracial and gay, said in an interview in September.
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The book last year was temporarily removed from the library shelves of a school district in Virginia along with "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" after a parent of a biracial student complained that the language in the novels was divisive.
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The engagement this week of Princess Diana's youngest son Prince Harry to a biracial American actress named Meghan Markle delighted many African-Americans, who greeted the news on social media with increasingly rapturous gifs, memes and liberal use of all caps.
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Ms. Flack said she asked a biracial cousin to pose for the face and had to remake the face perhaps 100 times with clay models to achieve a balance of features that might pass for various racial and ethnic mixes.
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It centers on Miles Morales, the biracial Spider-Man who exists in a parallel universe to our own, and who is the subject of a rich storyline in the comics but hasn't shown up in the live-action Marvel movie universe.
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Then we consider the offspring of interracial coupling — whether the possibility of occupying two identities (or more) is a choice, a luxury or a delusion; and what fears, doubts or envy nonbiracial black Americans might feel about biracial black Americans.
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Ms. Madden was no stranger to pain, either: Her 230 memoir, "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls," outlines her trauma-filled coming-of-age as the queer, biracial daughter of a pair of well-to-do addicts in South Florida.
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Documentaries about Markle's biracial California roots, reruns of Princess Diana's 1981 wedding to Prince Charles, and features on British pageantry and fashion are just some of the programming in store in the week leading up to the May 19 nuptials.
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Passed during the eugenics hysteria of the early 1920s, the law was one of several attempts by Virginia's lawmakers to draw an impossible line between the races in a society where interracial sex and biracial descendants had long been common.
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That Chappelle is an African-American raised by college professor parents, a Muslim with a Filipino wife, three biracial children and a white stepbrother, speaks to his singular ability to remix cultural boundaries in ways many cannot, or wish they could.
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If they had hoped that their child would be spared from the realities of being a biracial royal, that hope was quickly quashed; days after Meghan gave birth, a BBC broadcaster likened the couple's newborn to a well-dressed chimpanzee.
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The fourth monument, an obelisk, commemorated the Battle of Liberty Place, in which black police officers were killed during a violent uprising in 1874 by the Crescent City White League, a white supremacist group opposed to the city's biracial collaboration.
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Whether identifying as black, female, Latinx, queer, trans, Native American, Asian-American, Arab-American, disabled, Muslim, biracial or any combination thereof, playwrights traditionally marginalized in the theater face a second problem if their work finally ekes its way to the stage.
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The biracial Osaka, who was born in Japan to a Haitian-born father and Japanese mother and raised mainly in the United States, has won over the Japanese public with her self-effacing, deadpan manner as much as her sheer tennis talent.
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Not so for When Hands Touch, Amma Asante's controversial World War II film starring Amandla Stenberg as Leyna, a biracial German teenager who falls in love with Lutz (George MacKay), the son of a Nazi official and member of the Hitler Youth.
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Ask the broads populating Broad City, Girls, You're The Worst, Bad Moms, A Bad Mom's Christmas, upcoming Bad Moms' Moms, Rough Night, Bachelorette, and nearly everyone in Bridesmaids (star Maya Rudolph is biracial and also the least bad bad girl in the comedy).
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Here, she draws a dotted line between Jordan Peele's runaway hit movie Get Out, Dana Schutz's controversial Whitney Biennial painting Open Casket (which depicted the casket of Emmett Till), and her own questions about being biracial, as well as her children's experiences.
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The filmmaker responsible for Oscar nominees Selma and 13th had been pursued by Disney to adapt Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 science-fiction novel for the big screen, reimagining the story's heroine, Meg Murry, as a biracial girl played by relative unknown Storm Reid.
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The kids of NEATE were active and activist-y — over the course of this short series, they protested voter suppression, saved a refugee shelter from closure, explored the prejudice that biracial kids deal with, AND put on a pretty solid talent show performance.
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AltIvyW's comments are the typical racist social media abuse: saying Sam only got into Winchester due to affirmative action, commenting on black-on-black crime, refusing to identify themselves because of black people's rush to violence, personal insults about Sam's biracial identity.
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The Internet was more than excited to see the royal family welcome its first biracial member, and just when it looked like times were a-changing at Buckingham Palace, we got an ugly reminder Prince Harry's family still has ways to go.
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Though Democrats controlled Southern legislatures, 1876 to 1900 was a quarter-century period when some black men could still vote in the South — depending upon state laws and local levels of intimidation — and viable biracial political coalitions occasionally arose to challenge Democratic hegemony.
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When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle introduce their new baby boy to the world on Wednesday, the moment will make history: the baby is the first biracial heir (he is seventh in the line of succession) in the royal family's centuries-long history.
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The fairytale of a biracial woman marrying into the British royal family has got many in Britain caught up in the fantasy that a page has been turned, opening up a new chapter in the relationship between Britain and its black population.
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In becoming her country's first ever Grand Slam singles champion, Osaka, the daughter of a Haitian father and Japanese mother, is also helping break new ground in Japan as her biracial identity challenges the country's self-image as a racially homogenous society.
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Following the inundation of hateful tweets Old Navy received after posting an ad featuring an interracial couple and a biracial child, fans showed their support for the brand in the best way possible: by sharing images of their own mixed-race families.
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While Japan is becoming more ethnically diverse — one of 50 births is to biracial couples these days — there is still plenty of prejudice against "haafu," or half-Japanese, including cases of bullying mixed race children because they look different or have different names.
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Update: Following the inundation of hateful tweets Old Navy received after posting an ad featuring an interracial couple and a biracial child, fans showed their support for the brand in the best way possible: by sharing images of their own mixed-race families.
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The union of Prince Harry, who is sixth in line to the British throne, and Ms. Markle, an American actress who is biracial, divorced and a self-described feminist, was seen as the dawn of a new era championing a more inclusive monarchy.
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She had been charting her own path in film, and was a producer on "Downpour Summer," a short film released in 2016 about a young biracial man who meets his half-siblings after the death of his white father, who abandoned him.
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By Karina Yan Glaser (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99.) In this delightful and heartwarming throwback to the big-family novels of yesteryear, a large biracial family might lose their beloved brownstone home, but win it back with an all-out charm offensive. WISHTREE.
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Rob Meyer, directing a script by Annie J. Howell, could easily have made this a movie about those reactions, which seem a little last century; the list of towns where a biracial couple is a novelty is fairly short at this point.
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" ---- Biracial, American and now a Duchess: Meghan leaves mark on monarchy By Isha Sesay "The Duchess of Sussex chose to make her wedding day a moment where the world tuned in and were made to think about racial equality and gender equality.
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I heard of the difficulty of being half-black in places like Okinawa, where after generations of oppression from Japan and occupation by the United States military, biracial status is haunted by a long history of colonialism and stories of rape and abandonment.
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The mayor's agenda of combating inequality — most closely aligned with his implementation of universal pre-kindergarten — his biracial family, his ties to prominent labor unions and the bully pulpit that comes with his day job make him a useful validator for Sanders.
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I also saw some pushback on Twitter about Tika Sumpter being so much darker than Anna Deavere Smith, who plays Bow's mother on Black-ish, and a few tweets critical of the trailer's assertion that mixed kids didn't have biracial role models in the '80s.
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And she spoke of her experience as a biracial woman involved in making decisions on how criminal cases were prosecuted, per the LA Times: "We always have to be in those rooms, especially and even when there aren't many like us there," she said.
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That's why a biracial Japanese-Slavic Kovacs, whose stack was frozen for over 200 years as punishment for attempting to overthrow the government, can come back to life as a hulking white man who looks a whole lot like That One Guy From RoboCop.
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But this comparison takes into account neither the animating impulses of her art — Ms. Gaignard is biracial, and her background forms an essential through line in her work — nor the decades of intervening culture since Ms. Sherman began taking pictures in the late 1970s.
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" She explained, "These are all dark skin actors playing Africans and I feel like it would have just been off to see me as a biracial American with a Nigerian accent just pretending that I'm the same color as everyone else in the movie.
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Isha Sesay: Biracial, American and now a duchess: Meghan leaves mark on monarchy May 19 In a short period, Meghan Markle has ushered in a new sensibility and made the world recalibrate how it thinks about this family we thought we already knew so well.
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But she soon grows to love her biracial daughter, gives her the nickname Tommy, and they eke out their survival in a dreary bed-sit infested with cockroaches, heated only by puny gas fires that require feeding with coins, of which Bella never has enough.
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But as a biracial black woman with white family members who support President Trump, I relished the few nuanced glimpses I got of a conservative family that could almost be my own — a small reminder that more, probably, connects us than Mr. Trump divides us.
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Beyond dating a biracial woman, he made outsize efforts to hang out publicly with African-American celebrities: the boxing promoter Don King, the hip-hop impresarios Kanye West, Russell Simmons and Sean Combs, and celebrities as big as Muhammad Ali, James Brown and Michael Jackson.
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At 43, he could conceivably run the Marlins for decades — and as a biracial executive with a high-profile, authoritative presence in the game, he would immediately represent at least a symbolic victory for Major League Baseball in its struggle for front-office diversity.
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Some of this may have to do with what the brilliant Jordan Peele, who is also biracial and black, tapped into for the plot of his genre-redefining box office hit, "Get Out" — that it's cool to be black right now, that we are trending.
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Beckwith prosecuted the perpetrators of what is known as the Colfax Massacre, in which a predecessor of the Ku Klux Klan murdered as many as 150 former slaves who, with their white supporters, had created a biracial government in Colfax County and in Louisiana.
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It doesn't exactly spell that out, but very fact that it's featured in a magazine along with their mother's exclamation, "Sure enough they're biracial twins!" suggests that these twins are "so rare" because their complexions are different enough that they belong to different racial groups.
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As a fellow light-skinned biracial woman, I know how tempting it can be to try to avoid the topic of race altogether or act as a chameleon to fit in — especially because expressing pride in your heritage can provoke hatred or even prevent you from opportunities.
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While Monáe and Kiyoko have dominated queer music headlines in 22017, it was Halsey, who is bisexual and biracial, who boldly pivoted from using gender-neutral pronouns to using same-gender pronouns on "Strangers," a track featuring Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui, who is also bisexual, in 2018.
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In the movie, Mbatha-Raw's husband (Chris Pine) is white, therefore her daughter Meg (newcomer Storm Reid) is biracial; Meg's three wise, guiding witches are portrayed by Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, and Oprah Winfrey — an example of what can happen when filmmakers successfully employ colorblind casting techniques.
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The brooch has drawn further criticism due to Meghan's biracial background (her mother is Black and her father is white) — and the fact that Princess Michael chose to wear it on the day Meghan was being introduced to many extended royal family members for the first time.
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WATCH: Halle Berry on Growing up Biracial and Being Bullied at All-White School: 'We Got Called Oreos' Berry has kept fans updated since her return, including sharing pictures of her two kids — Nahla Ariela Aubry, 10, and Maceo Robert Martinez, 4 — from vacations on Instagram.
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Often he accentuates songs with a long, spoken outro while keeping the beat running, as on "Take it Back," in which he explains how being biracial taught him that humans are all connected, or "Anziety," in which he feigns an epiphany about his own mental health.
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L'Engle's (implicitly) white cast of characters and their home in the New England countryside have been replaced by a biracial family (Chris Pine and Gugu Mbatha-Raw play Meg's parents) in 21st century urban America, but somehow, it all still feels like A Wrinkle in Time.
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Also this year, Red Sox fan Calvin Hennick said he was sitting at Fenway Park with his biracial son and Haitian father-in-law when a man sitting next to him used a racial slur to describe the Kenyan woman who had just sung the national anthem.
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People used to write into Nimoy-as-Spock with questions Teenagers quizzed the logical Vulcan about LSD and the war in Vietnam, while one girl, herself biracial, asked Spock for advice on how to deal with the prejudices she was facing, he being a "half-breed" himself.
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As a biracial young man with a short, curly afro, Obama navigates both an affluent, mostly white academic world as a student and the struggles of black and brown inner city New Yorkers, getting himself in uncomfortable situations as he tries to seamlessly code-switch between both.
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Early favorites and award winners include "Call Me by Your Name," a gay coming-of-age story from a gay Italian filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino; "Get Out," the racially charged horror movie by a biracial writer-director, Jordan Peele; and "Lady Bird," written and directed by Greta Gerwig.
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Instead, when Richard and Tiffiney Zinger later took a closer look at a video from a March 23 visit to the resort, the husband and wife said they made a shocking discovery: One of the costumed characters posing with their biracial children made a white power sign.
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This unprecedented experiment in biracial democracy aroused intense opposition from adherents of white supremacy, at that time concentrated in the Democratic Party, who sought to undermine Reconstruction through outright violence and a campaign of vilification that portrayed black officials as ignorant, corrupt and unfit for public service.
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Especially since their vanishing act coincides with the disappearance of any real conversations about Jessica's biracial identity, which was one of season 2's best plot points, and Marcus Cole (Steven Silver), someone whose identity revolved around the tension of his race and his lofty dreams.
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In middle school, I spent a lot of time trying to explain to my white classmates that even though I look black, I am actually biracial — my birth mother is white and my birth father is black — and so I wasn't really as black as they thought.
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Young black women with no particular interest in the royal family gathered around their television screens and watched with excitement as the beautiful biracial American actress walked down the aisle of St. George's Chapel and took up her newly found status as the Duchess of Sussex.
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In addition to the question of what it means for a biracial woman to enter the royal family, feminists in the US and UK are grappling with whether and how to celebrate an event steeped in patriarchal tradition: the lavish wedding of a woman to a man.
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The engagement of Britain's Prince Harry to actress Meghan Markle is raising eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic for a particularly British set of reasons: She's a biracial woman who will be the first American divorcée to marry into the royal family in nearly 20183 years.
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And when Sam fights with herself over indulging in a social life and even having a white boyfriend, we come to know that she's struggling with what it means to be biracial, and the question of how to commit herself to a cause without burning herself out.
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She accomplished an incredible feat by becoming the first player representing Japan to win a Grand Slam title, which she did amid of her own battles with sexism and racism as a biracial woman playing for a country contending with compounding social issues around gender, race, and class.
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She's not only the first actress and the first American to be warmly welcomed into the family (rather than nearly causing a constitutional crisis à la Wallis Simpson!), many people believe her to be the first biracial person and person of African decent to marry into the family, too.
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That assumption is what leads to Becca Kufrin's all-white final three suitors and the fact that every single man to completely finish Paradise, whether that be in a fully committed relationship or as a fiancé, has been a white man, save for the biracial, light-skinned Grant Kemp.
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Screenshot: YouTube/Vertical EntertainmentWhere Hands Touch, director Amma Asante's new film about a love story between a biracial black teen (Amandla Stenberg) and a member of the Hitler youth (George MacKay) in Nazi Germany, promptly received backlash online after it was made available on streaming services this month.
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De Blasio's open discussion of a warning he'd given his biracial son, telling him to be especially cautious if he were stopped by police, along with past criticism of controversial practices like "stop and frisk" and long-running labor angst all fed what seemed like a doomed alliance.
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" Davies, she said, "follows several characters through America's past: Ah Ling, a railroad baron's valet, Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American Hollywood star, Vincent Wong, who was killed in a hate crime in Detroit in the 1970s, and John, a biracial writer traveling to China to adopt.
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Miller is a gay biracial man with a beard, but he plays Joanne as a Mexican-American in a fur coat who sees herself as a rich white woman and swans awkwardly through life on a cloud of "Caucasian" entitlement, unapologetically taking everyone for everything she can get.
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The reality TV mogul wore a braided hairstyle to the 2018 MTV Movie and TV awards and later defended her choice, saying she understood people&aposs backlash, but wanted to wear the braids to match her daughter, North, who is biracial and often wears her hair in protective hairstyles.
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The biracial artist Robert Colescott (1925-2009) didn't fully claim his black identity until he was in his 40s, but he did so with a vengeance in a series of hair-raisingly funny, offend-everyone paintings that marked him as one of 20th-century America's most incisive satirists.
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In the aftermath of a highly publicised incident in Milwaukee in 286, when an unarmed biracial man was severely beaten by off-duty white cops, three sociologists found that residents in black neighbourhoods were much less likely to call to report crimes for up to a year afterwards.
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It reminds us of the centrality of race-based slavery to our nation's history; of the idealism of those, white and black, who sought to build a society based on racial equality upon the ashes of slavery; and of the violent overthrow of the experiment in biracial democracy.
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That includes the President, whose origins as a biracial son of an African immigrant points to the next chapter of the increasingly diverse narrative of blackness in America, and it certainly includes Michelle Obama, who -- as the President noted in his speech -- is a native daughter of Chicago's South Side.
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Any and all of its attempts to tap into the zeitgeist — a character saying the word "fleek," a trip to Coachella, a complaint from Kimmy's biracial daughter (Soni Bringas) that the Tanners are the whitest family in America — are as transparently desperate as Mike Huckabee's train-wreck-terrible Adele parody video.
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And as a biracial woman, I watch in horror as both sides of a culture I define as my own become victims of spin in the media, perpetuating stereotypes and reminding us that the States has perhaps only placed bandages over the problems that have never healed at the root.
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But it was also a mere three weeks or so before Ms. Markle herself — biracial American, now former actress, divorcée, United Nations women's advocate — will walk down the aisle in Windsor Castle to to marry her real fiancé, Prince Harry (beloved royal soldier and hell raiser turned mental health activist).
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The genre is typically a predominantly white male-dominated field—so here's Gagneux, a Swiss biracial man creating a mashup of music deeply rooted in American slavery and metal, at a time when racial tensions in the US are boiling at a rate not seen since the Civil Rights era.
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The decision to wear the brooch drew further criticism due to Meghan Markle's biracial background (her mother is Black and her father is white) — and the fact that Princess Michael chose to wear it on the day Meghan was being introduced to many extended royal family members for the first time.
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Growing up biracial—my mother being white and my father being Black—in an overwhelmingly white community, my crush on Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club or propensity for drawing manga in the corners of my homework just aided in making me a little different from my classmates.
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As Harry and Meghan wed, we marveled at the touching and decorous show of genuine love, of African-American traditions blending into the stodgiest of British ones -- a biracial American divorcee marrying a real-life prince; a promise that progress does happen and the world does change for the better.
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The 23-year-old "Love Is Madness" singer, who is biracial — her father is African American and her mother is Italian, Hungarian and Irish — shared her frustrations about the shampoos and conditioners that hotels typically provide on Twitter, saying that they're not adequate for a vast number of their customers.
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Prince Harry, 34, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, and Ms. Markle, 37, are widely seen as likable and approachable, and she brought elements to the royal family that would have been unthinkable not so long ago: She is American, a former actress, biracial, divorced and a self-described feminist.
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Through Dante, his father, Bill de Blasio, was able to highlight his biracial family, offer a personal perspective on his policies on affordable housing and early childhood education and signal his intention to end the police practice, known as stop and frisk, that Dante said in the ad "unfairly targets" minorities.
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And Ms. Markle — also strikingly beautiful and who, as a divorced, biracial woman with a successful career as an actor, would have been a controversial choice of bride for a British prince until shamefully recently — promises to bring a breath of 21st-century air into the deeply conservative royal establishment.
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After African-Americans began voting in large numbers following the passage of the 483 Voting Rights Act, Georgia Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Roy Barnes campaigned and governed as moderates and forged biracial coalitions that included a substantial minority of white voters along with the overwhelming majority of African-American voters.
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One half of the Freeform ship is the biracial Kat Edison (Aisha Dee), a queer woman just realizing she is queer, and the other is artist Adena El Amin (Nikohl Boosheri), a Muslim woman and immigrant who has always known she is a lesbian and has always been proud to be a lesbian.
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So you might look at me and say 'she's Black,' or 'she's biracial,' but people don't realize there is a very different cultural legacy in the United States than the U.K. Here, there's a specific sense of identity and community that comes with being African-American — that's a culture all its own.
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VM: Her new language-immersion kindergarten is mostly white and Latinx, but in her old preschool, she hung out with a group of friends that was Cheerios-quality diversity: one Ghanaian girl, a Japanese-American girl, an Armenian girl, a biracial boy, and white twins, one of whom may be gender-fluid.
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But Barr's actions on the previous series do give pause to anyone hoping the show will really dig into the disconnect between Roseanne Conner's Trump support and the policies the president backs that would make life harder for her biracial granddaughter, her military-deployed daughter-in-law, and her seemingly genderqueer grandson.
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" On a recent visit to Stratford, I saw five Shakespeare plays; a superlative "All My Sons" featuring intriguing new undercurrents supplied by the biracial casting; the North American premiere of the stage version of "Shakespeare in Love," an ebullient crowd-pleaser; and two musicals, "A Little Night Music" and "A Chorus Line.
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Flip through a stack of fairy tales and try to find a heroine like Ms. Markle: a 36-year-old biracial actress and philanthropist; a child of divorce who is herself divorced, with strained sibling ties; a self-described feminist who spoke about gender equality at the United Nations Women's conference in 2015.
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Named after Columbia professor William Dunning, its practitioners held that attempts to build biracial governments in the South after the war — by protecting African-American men's right to vote, by using the federal government to put down anti-black violence — was a failure because black Americans were not yet cultural ready for democracy.
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Sitting down for The Jess Cagle Interview with PEOPLE's editor-in-chief to talk about her latest film, Kidnap, an action-packed thriller about a mother's mission to save a child snatched before her eyes, the Oscar winner, 50, opened up about what it was like growing up biracial in an all-white school.
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"The artist is living the lyric," said Mr. Fletcher, referencing the aspects of Ms. Carey's biography — her biracial identity, fraught upbringing, high-profile couplings and splits, and unhappy marriage to Tommy Mottola, the boss of her first label, Columbia, whom she married in 223 and separated from in 248 — that are reflected in her work.
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A MINUS Not available on streaming services Zeal & Ardor: Devil Is Fine (MVKA Music) Challenged to join black metal and black music in holy sacrilege, biracial Swiss New Yorker Manuel Gagneux said either fuck you or fuck yeah and began hollering faux field hollers of "devil is kind" and "devil is fine" over chain-gang percussion.
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Not only will a biracial woman from America — a country where black women are three to four times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than white women — (hopefully) be provided the comfort and environment she desires during delivery, but she is refusing the role of spectacle, of superhuman, that has been assigned to her.
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All its other details, like the Portland setting and the LAX bro and the Yakult and hell, even the Covey sisters being biracial—endeared the movie to me, the way it's nice to be on the inside of an inside joke, but ultimately they aren't the main thrust of the film (though they remain an intrinsic part of it).
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As a biracial woman, born and raised in Milwaukee in the 1980s and 1990s, who has gone on to be successful in my own right, I may be able to help put into context why a city you probably know nothing about, perhaps never visited, and most likely don't know anyone from, has overflowed with rage.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE (D-Calif.), which he added would also be "powerful as well" given his daughter is also biracial.
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Unlike the case of "The Canterbury Tales," which fishes from a pool of unrelated characters, here every tale propels the plot forward, revealing a composite of the three children: Jeanne, a peasant girl stricken with visions of the future; William, a biracial young monk with superhuman strength; and Jacob, a Jewish boy who can heal the wounded and sick.
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In their personal lives, each student is grappling with seemingly distinct concerns: Esteban's father is facing deportation to the Dominican Republic; Ashton is white and reckoning with his economic status after his father loses his job and moves the family to Crown Heights from Connecticut; Haley, a biracial girl, has an incarcerated father, and so on.
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Barrett's artwork is exquisite, and provides another layer to the story that is not explicitly explored in the text (the girls and their mother are all depicted as black and biracial, and as suffering under the increasing irrationality and restrictions of the white, mad king; the royal advisers and visiting princes represent a wide range of racial backgrounds).
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And this was ultimately a shortcoming of mine, because I knew we were going to want to follow some white kids, but I gave primacy to the black and biracial kids, in terms of our casting, initially thinking — erroneously and kind of stupidly, honestly — that it wouldn't be that hard to find some good white student candidates.
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Set in 1921, mostly on a contested piece of property on Wilder Street in a black neighborhood still arising from uncultivated farmland, it concerns a biracial woman named Thalia (Toni Ann DeNoble) who has come with her frustrated boyfriend, Streeter (Hubert Point-Du Jour), to build a "nice quaint" house after losing her ancestral home near Houston.
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Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast: It's a film in which the lead is a teenage, biracial girl, one with un-self-conscious interest in and aptitude for science and math, who goes on a journey to embrace the parts of her she's been told by society to ignore or demean, and uses those very qualities as weapons to save the day.
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Drake is biracial (his mom is white, his dad Black), but capitalizes on Black culture at every turn, often trying on new ones for size and often tapping into his massive fanbase to sell products (benefitting from being palatable, or "safe," to white audiences), something Pusha-T says the Canadian rapper is trying to do with his purported Adidas line.
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In 2016, with celebrity couples like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West gracing the covers of magazines like Vogue and a biracial president in the White House, it may seem that interracial relationships are an accepted part of life in the United States—especially since from 2000 to 2010, the US census found that interracial marriages increased from seven percent to 10 percent.
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The marriage of Prince Harry to Meghan MarkleMeghan MarklePrince Harry talks about 'unconscious bias' and racism with Jane Goodall Christian group warns against rise of 'Christian nationalism' Meghan Markle to interview Michelle Obama as guest editor of British Vogue MORE, a biracial, American divorcee and actress, smashed precedents and elevated the event into a celebration of social justice and inclusion.
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But, once there, I found myself thrilling to rare examples of the aggressive affront that I had expected, such as a series of fantastically nasty small works by the reliably dazzling Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based, biracial, transgender artist and performer Vaginal Davis: abstract reliefs that suggest mangled faces, viscera, and genitalia, painted in a blood-red mixture of substances, including nail polish.
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