List: Mixed Race & Modern Families | Curated by Steve Majors

Nov 27, 2021
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Mixed Race & Modern FamiliesA collection of essays from writer, author Steve Majors
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An Injustice!
I’m White on the Outside, but Black Through and ThroughMy family had a complicated relationship with race
Nov 27, 2021
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Nov 27, 2021
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A birth certificate masked my multiracial truthMy face burned — whether with anger or shame, I wasn’t sure. In 1994, I stood outside human resources at the CBS offices in the Los…
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
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Diverse families still face skepticism. I’ve learned that the hard way.The first time I was accused of kidnapping my daughters, I stood shaking with anger on a side street in New Orleans’s French Quarter. My…
Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018
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Stuck in the MiddleMy daughters and I defy easy labeling. It has taken me a lifetime to realize that we don’t have to declare a single racial identity.
Dec 6, 2019
Dec 6, 2019
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Age of Awareness
Perspective | For biracial people like me, the royal baby has a special meaningThe historic birth announcement required a worldwide Instagram post, a royal news conference, two footmen carrying a golden easel and one…
Jan 29, 2020
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Jan 29, 2020
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An Injustice!
What “Modern Family” Meant to Gay Parents Like Me- and Where We Go from HereA decade ago, two gay dads and a lesbian couple raising two teens helped change the face of American families.
Apr 9, 2020
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Apr 9, 2020
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An Injustice!
Perspective | I’m a black man with white privilege. I see how it distorts America.I walk a racial tightrope. It’s one I’ve struggled to balance on for my entire life. But over the past several weeks, I’ve felt myself…
Jun 15, 2020
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Jun 15, 2020
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Be Yourself
NeecieFor years, the guiding force in my life tied my shoes, yanked a comb through my tangled hair, and then dragged me along by the hand…
Jul 22, 2021
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Jul 22, 2021
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The pandemic has placed my daughters on unequal footing. I’m not sure what’s next.In the national debate over reopening school buildings, the parents of more than 50 million American school children were forced to make…
Aug 6, 2020
Aug 6, 2020
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Perspective | Meghan Markle’s story shows how Black people’s skin color is always scrutinizedFor all the revelations in Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the most striking was Meghan’s…
Mar 9, 2021
Mar 9, 2021
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Be Yourself
One  Family, in Black and WhiteA Conversation on Race, Identity and the Ties that Bind Us
Jun 19, 2020
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Jun 19, 2020
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Still LovingI’ve often wondered what a dirt-poor, white handyman would see in a poorly educated, black domestic worker.
Jun 12, 2021
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Jun 12, 2021
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