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It’s Famous Friday!

multiracial2020-03-12T17:23:37+00:00March 12th, 2020|

Jesse Williams Jesse Williams was born on August 5,1981, to his African American father Reginald Williams, and Swedish mother Johanna Chase. He is best known for his role as Dr. Jackson Avery on ABC’s primetime medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. He has also appeared on Law and Order, Beyond the Break, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. Prior to beginning a career in acting, he followed in his parents footsteps by graduating from Temple University with a double major in African American Studies and [...]

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multiracial2020-03-11T21:20:06+00:00March 11th, 2020|

The Census Bureau will "invite" you to fill out your 2020 Census forms between March 12 and March 20. Make sure you fill them out correctly. You may want to watch the Project RACE video as a reminder. Help increase the multiracial numbers! See our 2020 Census Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v72NslaIFNs

It’s Famous Friday!

multiracial2020-02-27T16:01:23+00:00February 27th, 2020|

Mandy Gonzalez Mandy Gonzalez was born on August 22, 1978, to a Mexican father and white mother. She has had a successful career as an actress and singer and is best known for her roles on Broadway. These roles include the fabulous Angelica Schuyler from the musical Hamilton, Elphaba from the musical of Wicked, and Nina Rosario in the original cast of In the Heights. From an early age, Mandy Gonzalez’s grandmother saw her passion for music and signed her up for singing lessons. She attended Saugus High School in [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

multiracial2020-02-20T20:19:09+00:00February 20th, 2020|

Famous Friday: Dr. Jonathan S. Holloway Dr. Jonathan Holloway has been named as the twenty first President of Rutgers University and is expected to step into the position in July. Holloway will be Rutgers’ first non-white president since the college was founded more than 250 years ago. Rutgers board of governors Chairman Mark Angelson welcomed Holloway saying, “He has a giant heart and a sense of humor. … His academic credentials are through the roof.” It is certainly true that Dr. Holloway has a very impressive academic and professional history. [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

multiracial2020-02-13T19:52:53+00:00February 13th, 2020|

Derek Jeter Derek Jeter was born on June 26, 1974 in New Jersey. His mother, Dorothy, is of Caucasian and European decent, while his father, Sanderson, is African-American. Jeter’s father, who played baseball at Fisk University, assimilated Derek into the sport at a young age. Trying to instill a sense of responsibility into the young athlete, Jeter’s parents made him sign a contract every year, outlining a set of rules for his behavior. The contract made is so that Derek was to always keep a positive outlook, and could not [...]

Famous Friday

multiracial2020-02-06T21:25:47+00:00February 6th, 2020|

Gianna Bryant, sometimes referred to as “GiGi” was an American middle school who loved the game of basketball. She was destined to take after her father, the legendary NBA star, Kobe Bryant. Gianna Bryant was born in Los Angeles, California on May 1, 2006. She is the daughter of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant. Her father was African American and her mother is Mexican. Her mother was a model and her father played for the Los Angeles Lakers for 20 years and helped them win five NBA championships.. Gianna, just [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

multiracial2020-01-30T21:44:29+00:00January 30th, 2020|

Shakira Look for Shakira performing at halftime during this Sunday’s Super Bowl show. Shakira is a Columbian singer, songwriter, dancer, business woman, record producer, and philanthropist. She was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her father is Lebanese and her mother is Colombian. Shakira is most known as a Colombian pop singer. Her first album was when she was 13 and she is now 42. Shakira’s hit, Hip’s Don’t Lie, was No. 1 on the Billboard Top 10. She has talked about the difficulty of overcoming obstacles while becoming an [...]

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multiracial2020-01-26T07:36:13+00:00January 26th, 2020|

See our 2020 Census Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v72NslaIFNs Q. What’s the difference between an academic, a government worker, a social group and an advocate? A. The academic is still thinking about it, the government worker is still out of town, the social group is still having parties and the advocates got it all done. Please share our video. We must spread the word on this ourselves. No one else is going to do it.

It’s Famous Friday!

multiracial2020-01-25T08:49:51+00:00January 25th, 2020|

It is Friday once again, and today we will be highlighting the (former) interracial couple Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt! Sammy Davis Jr. was taking a huge risk in marrying May Britt. It wasn’t until the Supreme court case of Loving vs. Virginia in 1967, that interracial marriages would become legal all throughout the United States. Sammy Davis Jr. was African-American and Cuban, and May Britt is Swedish. This couple’s marriage was definitely outside the norm for the time period. The union of Sammy and May certainly contributed [...]

Informational Friday

multiracial2020-01-24T11:32:44+00:00January 24th, 2020|

When “Mixed” Isn’t Enough GETTY Why We Need Better Terms For People Who Identify As Two Or More Races by Nicole Holliday When I was a kid, I always just assumed that everyone in the world called people like me “mixed,” because in the 1990s in central Ohio, where I grew up, mixed almost always referred to folks like me, who had one black parent and one white parent. The community I grew up in had very few people who identified as anything other than black or white, so I just thought that mixed meant [...]

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