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It’s Famous Friday!

Susan Graham2023-12-02T15:30:21+00:00December 2nd, 2023|

Happy Friday everyone! I’m AJ Rempel, highlighting the artist Victoria Walker, more commonly known as PinkPantheress! Walker is a pop artist who has a 90s and 2000s style. She was born in England, on April 18, 2001, to a Kenyan mother and an English. Victoria started her love for music at a young age when she took piano lessons at 12. When she was 14 she was the lead singer in a rock band that would cover songs by My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Green Day. At 17, Pinkpantheress [...]

GIVING TUESDAY

Susan Graham2023-11-28T03:59:55+00:00November 28th, 2023|

GIVING TUESDAY Today is Giving Tuesday. It is the day people decide which non-profit to donate to. We hope you will decide to donate to Project RACE. We are an all-volunteer member organization. This is our only fundraiser throughout the year and ends on December 31st. Please consider donating online today. Thank you! Go to this link: https://projectrace.com/donate/ Donate Project RACE never requires a membership fee. We are a non-profit, 501(c)(3) all volunteer organization supported by individual donations, contributions, and grants. Donations are deductible, as provided by law. If [...]

New Multiracial Identity Podcast

Susan Graham2023-11-05T16:57:54+00:00November 5th, 2023|

https://multiracialidentitypodcast.podbean.com/

Interracial Marriage Problems?

Susan Graham2023-10-19T21:59:22+00:00October 19th, 2023|

No Thanks to Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs Shame on them. Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs have been making comments about the fact that they were an interracial couple led to their split. They say that “the interracial aspect” led to their divorce in 2014. They should have thought about that long before they got married if it was in case a fact. Hollywood couples get divorced all the time, it seems, and the marriage of two “stars” must have its own problems. I have not been a fan of [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

Susan Graham2023-09-29T14:16:18+00:00September 29th, 2023|

Happy Friday everyone! I’m AJ Rempel and I’m highlighting the singer Laufey Lin Jónsdóttir! Laufey is an artist who sings a mix of jazz-pop and bedroom pop. On April 23, 1999, Laufey was born in Reykjavík, Iceland to a Chinese mother and an Icelandic father. Her mother was a classical violinist and her grandfather, Lin Yaoji, was a violin teacher. Her mother and her grandfather were both inspirations for her love of music. Laufey has been involved with music since she was very young, she started to learn the piano [...]

Susan Graham2023-06-30T14:34:02+00:00June 30th, 2023|

IT’S FAMOUS FRIDAY! Jennifer Beals Jennifer Beals was born on December 19, 1963, and is an American actress. She made her film debut in My Bodyguard (1980), before receiving critical acclaim for her performance as Alexandra Owens in Flashdance (1983). Beals was born and raised in the South side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores Beals' father was African American, and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.[5] Her father died when Beals was nine. Beals had a minor role in the 1980 film My [...]

Book Review

Susan Graham2023-05-19T22:35:02+00:00May 19th, 2023|

I just finished reading Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family by Rachel Jamison Webster. Do yourself a favor and read this outstanding book. Benjamin Banneker’s grandparents were in an interracial marriage and are brought to life by Webster’s writing. A white woman, she takes us on her journey of ancestry and racism over hundreds of years. The story took my breath away. I can’t say it any better than Natasha Trethewey’s quote below. "Rachel Jamison Webster has collaborated with her relatives to weave an impressive investigation [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

Susan Graham2023-02-25T17:35:40+00:00February 25th, 2023|

Hello! And welcome back to this week’s Famous Friday! Today we will highlight Kimora Lee Simmons, a businesswoman, American model, entrepreneur, fashion designer, actor, author, and philanthropist. She was born in St. Louis Missouri to her African American father and her Japanese-Korean mother. Growing up because of her identifiable height at 5’10'' and because of her multiracial background she openly discussed how she was a target for bullies and always felt different from those around her. In an effort to boost her confidence at age 11, Kimora’s mother enrolled her [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

Susan Graham2022-12-09T14:47:16+00:00December 9th, 2022|

This week's Famous Friday is about the 44th president of the United States Barack Hussein Obama II. Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obamas mother, Ann Dunham, is American born in Wichita, Kansas mostly of English descent. His father Barack Obama Sr. is Kenyan from Nyang’oma Kogelo. His parents met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A few weeks after Obama was born, he and his mother moved to Seattle Washington where she attended the University of Washington, his [...]

Please Help

Susan Graham2022-11-29T14:42:17+00:00November 29th, 2022|

GIVING TUESDAY Today is Giving Tuesday. It is the day people decide which non-profit to donate to. We hope you will decide to donate to Project RACE. We are an all-volunteer member organization. This is our only fundraiser through the year and ends on December 31st. Please consider donating today. Thank you! Go to this link: https://projectrace.com/donate/ Donate Project RACE never requires a membership fee. We are a non-profit,501(c)(3) all volunteer organization supported by individual donations, contributions and grants. Donations are deductible, as provided by law. If you believe [...]