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It’s Famous Friday!

multiracial2018-02-22T22:03:07+00:00February 22nd, 2018|

Famous Friday: Dr. Sarah Gaither Alonso Nichols/Tufts University Photo This is a first for Project RACE. We've featured a lot of actors, athletes, and singers, some authors and politicians, but I do believe that Sarah Gaither is the first professor we have featured in our weekly Famous Friday series on interesting multiracial people. But, as an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, Sarah Gaither is a multiracial woman who is making her mark and someone that we think you should know. Sarah was born to a white mother and [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

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Lynda Carter The original television Wonder Woman and former Miss World USA is multiracial. Linda was born to a Mexican-American mother and a father of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. Lynda is an American actress, singer, song writer, and model. Lynda landed the starring role on Wonder Woman in 1975 and her acting career took off. She signed a Maybelline cosmetics contract in 1977. She was voted the Most Beautiful Woman in the World in 1978. Lynda has been married twice and has two children. In 1985 she left Hollywood to [...]

Famous Friday!

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Amber Stevens West Amber is a multiracial American actress and model. Her father is Caucasian and her mother is African American. She is best known for her role, Ashleigh Howard, in the ABC Family series Greek. She also played Maya in 22 Jump Street, and Maxine in the Carmichael show. She began dating her husband Andrew West while they were co-starring together in Greek. They married in Los Angeles in 2014. Amber currently has a main role in the 2017 Fox supernatural comedy Ghosted. In a sit down interview with [...]

Meghan Markle Engaged to Prince Harry!

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Pop the champagne. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are engaged. Now, the American actress will be the first biracial princess the British royal family's ever had. They're planning on making it a short engagement. They're set to get married next year, which is also when Princess Kate is due to give birth to baby no. 3. Cheers.

Real American: A Memoir BOOK REVIEW

multiracial2017-11-21T09:53:57+00:00November 21st, 2017|

Book Review by Susan Graham Real American: A Memoir I read a review of Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims in The New York Times yesterday. It said Julie Lythcott-Haims’ new memoir is about growing up biracial. It’s not. It’s about growing up black. If you want to get really angry, read this book. In fact, it should be required reading for anyone even thinking about being in an interracial relationship and especially parents of multiracial children. In so many ways, it’s a primer on what not to do. [...]

Famous Friday!

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Kane Brown Kane is an up and coming biracial country singer. His father is black and part Cherokee and his mother is white. Kane was raised by his mother and they had significant financial difficulties causing them to move often and resulted in them being homeless on occasions living in their car. Kane has reported other difficulties such as; being abused by his stepdad, and racism. He has described his childhood as difficult and painful, but hopes to be a role model. Kane stated that growing up in Northwest Georgia [...]

Famous Friday!

multiracial2017-11-10T05:22:12+00:00November 10th, 2017|

Famous Friday: Suzanne Malveaux We watch a lot of CNN in our house and one of our favorite journalists is Suzanne Malveaux. Suzanne is an award-winning TV journalist who has been a national correspondent, covering politics, news and culture for CNN since 2002, the year I was born. She anchored the CNN program Around The World and CNN Newsroom; served as a White House correspondent, and much more. Malveaux graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in sociology, just like my sister, former Project RACE Teens President Kayci Baldwin. Suzanne went on to earn a master's degree in broadcasting from the Columbia. She is a member of [...]

Famous Friday!

multiracial2017-11-02T20:04:01+00:00November 2nd, 2017|

Selena Gomez Selena is an American singer and actress. She was born in 1992 and grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas. Her mother is part Italian ancestry, and her father is of Mexican descent. Selena’s parents divorced when she was five years old. She was raised primarily by her mother. She remembers being very angry due to her parents’ divorce. Her acting career started on the kids show Barney and Friends when she was seven years old. Her music was introduced in 2009 with her debut album “Kiss and Tell”. [...]

Famous Friday!

multiracial2017-10-26T19:30:48+00:00October 26th, 2017|

Ben Simmons Ben Simmons is the man and that’s why this is my second Famous Friday feature on him. I wrote about Ben here on the Project RACE blog back in January 2016 when he was a college freshman at LSU. In the last 21 months he has earned himself a repeat spot! As I predicted, Ben was the number one pick in the 2016 NBA draft and signed with the 76ers in July 2016. But a couple months later during a training camp scrimmage he suffered a fracture of the [...]

Skin Color and Race

multiracial2017-10-13T08:19:57+00:00October 13th, 2017|

Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say Carl Zimmer A gallery of busts from the 19th century showing human diversity on display in the Museum of Mankind in Paris. Scientists have found that the genetic variations that determine skin color are widely shared. Credit Romuald Meigneux/SIPA, via Associated Press For centuries, skin color has held powerful social meaning — a defining characteristic of race, and a starting point for racism. “If you ask somebody on the street, ‘What are the main differences between races?,’ they’re going [...]