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Mixed American Life will now feature photos from our Mixed community at the top of our blog from a Flickr set! Add your photo Contact us with the form below and we will email instructions to you on how to submit your photo. You will also have the option of posting an article with your photo, bio and backlinks to your social sites. P.S. We are looking for software that can easily put photos onto a virtual Rubik’s cube. Please let us know if you are aware of such software or know someone who can create it.
"Earlier in the week, I had a meeting with a business consultant to get some help on a project I’m working on. We met at Starbucks and took a seat directly across from the counter. We weren’t more than five or six feet from anyone walking up to the counter to order. About thirty minutes into our conversation, a beautiful Native American girl and her mother walk up and are waiting in line."
Billy Bowlegs III was born in 1862. His father was African-American and his mother was Seminole. He took the name Billy Bowlegs as an adult after the great Seminole chief who led his people through the Seminole Wars.
Known as: TV & Film Actress
TV: “The Secret Circle”, “Smallville”, “Valemont”, “90210”, “Soul”, “Kaya”, “Undercovers”
Movies: “50/50”, “In Time”, “Karma, Inc.”
The last Census showed 9 million people, about 3 percent of the population, reporting more than one race. That's an increase of one-third from the decade before — and that number is only going up.
The MSNBC talk show host and college professor has a white mother and a black father, though she self-identifies as black.
Known as: Professional Soccer Player (Plays for SV Waldhof Mannheim & The Canadian National team; Previously played for Preußen Münster, Eintracht Rheine, FC Schalke 04 II & Fortuna Düsseldorf II)
Known as: Model & Actress (Modeled for/in Lancome, Chanel, Versace, YSL, Baby Phat, Hugo Boss, Fendi, Tiffanys, Levi’s; Sister of DJ/Producer Steve Aoki) Movies: “Sin City”, “2 Fast 2 Furious”, “War”, “D.E.B.S.”, “DOA: Dead or Alive”, “Mutant Chronicles”
Known as: Patent Attorney & Model (Winner of Bravo TV’s “Manhunt: The Search For America’s Most Gorgeous Male Model” series; Modeled for Abercrombie and Fitch, Ed Hardy, OCBC Bank, V, Men’s Health, Urban, Female, and Catalogue)
The actress (“Golden Boy,” “House”) has a Cuban mother and a father who is of Italian and French descent, was born inBogotá, Colombia and raised in Nicaragua.
Known as: Country Music Singer Music Videos/Live Performances: Wink, The Shake, Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, You Gotta Love That
“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson is an epic tale on par with classics like” Roots” by Marcus Garvey and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” by Alex Haley.
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Kayte Grace is a refreshing American Phenomenon. Her music videos show her singing about attraction to white men - without hesitation, pretense or apology. She brings a refreshing hope to the U.S, ...
Jim Thorpe (aka Bright Path) was born May 28, 1888. His father was of Irish and Sac and Fox Indian descent. His mother was French and Native American. Thorpe was raised as Sac and Fox in Oklahoma. Thorpe--who had a...
Known as: Professional Basketball Player (Starting Center for the NBA’s Chicago Bulls; Son of French singer and former professional tennis playerYannick Noah) Awards/Accolades: NBA 2013 All-Star; NBA 2013 All-Defensive First Team; NBA 2011 All-Defensive Second Team
Formula 1 driver, Lewis Hamilton (Mclaren Mercedes team, ok I am a huge F1 fan and Hamilton is my favorite) has been romantically linked to singer Nicole Sherzinger for some time now. Both are actually mixed. The British Hamilton’s Mom is white and father is black and Sherzinger has a Filipino father and a mother who is half Hawai’in and half Russian.
Known as: Grammy nominated Rapper & Songwriter Music Videos: Money, Feel It, Stand Up
Known as: Professional Baseball Player (Starting Pitcher for the Minnesota Twins; Previously played for the Philadelphia Phillies)
Known as: TV & Film Actress
TV: “Sunset Beach”, “Rescue Me”, “The Fosters”, “One Life to Live”, “In Treatment”, “Beggars and Choosers”, “Gossip Girl”, “Heroes”, “CSI:NY”, “CSI:Miami”
Movies: “Ten Stories Tall”, “Finding Home”
By Germanic I mean anyone whose native language belongs to the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages: most Germans, Dutch, English, Danes, Australians, Americans, etc. They live mainly in nort...
Solomon Northup was born free circa 1808 to a father who was a freeman of color and a mother who he would describe as a "quadroon". In 1829, Northup married a mixed-race woman with whom he had three children.
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-Sa or Red Bird, was born in 1876 to a full-blooded Sioux woman and a white man. She struggled with her mixed-race heritage as a chid on the reservation as well as off.
Known as: Actress & Comedian TV: April Ludgate in “Parks and Recreation”, “Troopers”, “Mayne Street”, “The Jeannie Tate Show”, “Keith Powell Directs a Play” Movies: “Safety Not Guaranteed”, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”, “Funny People”, “Mystery Team”, “From Up on Poppy Hill”, “10 Years”, “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You”
Known as: Actor, Singer, Martial Artist, Dancer & Model (Former member of Disney’s “T-Squad”) Movies: “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”, “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Parts 1 & 2”, “White Frog”, “Dark Games”, “Logan” TV: “Blue Dolphin Kids”, “Dante’s Cove”, “Everybody Hates Chris”, “Good Luck Charlie”, “ER”, “CSI: Miami”
The U.S. will be “majority-minority” in a few decades, but in the City of Angels the future is now. In fact, you can literally taste it.
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