Yara Shahidi is of Black and Iranian heritage. In a interview with Teen Vogue , where she opened up about being biracial, Shahidi said, "Being someone that is half-Black and half-Iranian and proud of both sides, it gave me a community of people that identify as Blackish. How Iranian am I? Mariah Carey is of Black and Irish heritage. In opening up about her childhood, Carey asked, "How was I supposed to fit in? Avan Jogia is of Indian, English, and Irish heritage. He published Mixed Feelings , a combination of poetry and interviews with other mixed-race individuals that focuses on self-identity, in In a interview with 34th Street about Mixed Feelings , Jogia shared, "I realized the collective mixed experience is so similar. We are all unified in the similarities of the experience.
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Zendaya Coleman has called out Hollywood's beauty standards. The year-old actress says she's the industry's "acceptable version of a black girl". Speaking at the Beautycon Festival she said colourism within the beauty and entertainment industries needs to end.
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Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. In Loving v. Virginia, the U. Supreme Court found Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of unconstitutional, thus legalizing marriage between people of different races. You read that right: Before , in 17 states—all the former slave states, plus Oklahoma—it was illegal for people of different races to marry. It seems like ancient history, and considering the rainbow of races we now have in celebrity culture, it's hard to conceive that that it took an act of the Supreme Court for beautiful women like Alicia Keys and Rashida Jones to legally exist. And yet, if you had asked Richard and Mildred Loving, the couple who fought that legal battle against Virginia, whether one of their mixed-race kids they had three, the first born in the late '50s might grow up to be president, they would have been skeptical, to say the least.
