George Harris, a biracial slave, is the heroic beating heart — or the bleeding heart, critics might say — of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Almost 60 years later, the ultimate ...

For higher-education researchers, the choice of how to classify people who identify themselves as biracial is hardly as simple as black and white. In fact, a paper being presented here on Thursday at ...

Multiracial individuals are a growing segment of our population. 1 Researchers frequently tout the rising number of interracial unions and multiracial individuals as a sign that racial/ethnic ...

Barack Obama. With a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, Obama is the nation's first biracial candidate for president. The media, however, have continually called Obama the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Non-Hispanic whites with American Indian ancestry make up a full half of the current population of mixed-race Americans but are among the least likely to say that they are ...

Picture of me at seven years old. Photo courtesy of Natasha Akery. I didn’t know I was biracial when I was a kid, but I knew I was different. I grew up on the coast of South Carolina with church ...

Nicole Doyley blends personal experience, expert insights, and practical strategies to help parents guide their children through questions of race, identity, and belonging. Multiracial identity brings ...

While long-standing gaps in general well-being have closed between minority and white children in recent years, partly thanks to pandemic-era government support, those gaps are still very much real, ...

A hapless man stands on the sidewalk, watching and wincing as an ex-girlfriend tosses his possessions out a second-floor window in a commercial for DirecTV Now. A husband and wife are overjoyed to ...