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Jazmine Dubois	Her father is Black and her mother is White. She is the sweet but confused girl next door in the comic strip The Boondocks.
James McBride	His mother is White, his Father is Black. He is an award-winning writer and composer. His memoir, "The Color of Water", was on the NY Times Bestseller list for two years and has been translated into ten languages. James is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, People Magazine and Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. James is the recipient of the 1997 Ainisfield Wolf Book Award for Literary Excellence and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Whitman College. He is also the recipient of several awards for his work as a composer in musical theater, including the 1996 American Arts and Letters Richard Rodgers Award, the 1996 ASCAP Richard Rodgers Horizons Award, and the American Music Festival's 1993 Stephen Sondheim Award.
Rebecca Walker	She is the daughter of a White Jewish man and a Black mother (author Alice Walker). Her writing, has been published in Essence, Mademoiselle, The New York Daily News, SPIN, Harper's, Sassy, The Black Scholar, and various women's and black studies anthologies. She also wrote Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self and edited an anthology exploring young women's struggles to reclaim and redefine feminism entitled, To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. For her work, Rebecca has been featured on CNN, MTV, The Charlie Rose Show, The Joan Rivers Show, and in The New York Times, The Chicago Times, The Atlanta Constitution, the San Francisco Examiner, Harper's Bazaar, Working Woman, Elle, Esquire, and U.S. News and World Report.
Andre Watts	Pianist; born in Nuremberg, Germany. Son of an African-American soldier and a Hungarian mother, he studied piano in Philadelphia and appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age nine. He was catapulted to fame in 1963, when he played on national television with the New York Philharmonic. After his first world tour in 1967, he became an international favorite, primarily noted for his elegant handling of the 19th-century repertoire. Watts has become one of the few superstars to appear annually with the most celebrated orchestras and conductors in the world. Andre Watts is probably the most well known pianist today- a true musical ambassador from our nation to the world.
Phillipa Duke Schuyler	American concert pianist and writer. Her father was Black (author and journalist George Schuyler) and her mother was White (Texan artist and journalist Josephine Cogdell). She began playing the piano at the age of three and at four she was composing. By 11, she was touring, with over 100 piano compositions to her credit by the age of 13. As a young adult, when white America lost interest in her, she was forced to play piano concerts overseas, giving command performances for Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and many other international leaders. Just before her death, Schuyler had begun a career as a news correspondent. She died at the age of 35 in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War while attempting to rescue Catholic schoolchildren from a war zone in Hue to the shelter of a school in Da Nang
Terence Facey	His mother is White and his father is West Indian (African). He says he is, "a photographer, born of mixed parentage I use photography as a means of documenting my search for identity."
Walter Mosley	His father is Black and his mother is a White. Walter Mosley is the current president of the Mystery Writers of America, a member of the executive board of the PEN American Center and founder of its Open Book Committee, and on the board of directors of the National Book Awards. Mosley's novels are now published in 18 countries. Sections of Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned have already appeared in Esquire and GQ, and a film adaptation is currently being produced by HBO.
Suzette Charles	Her mother is Black and her father is White. Miss America in 1984. She became Miss America in the middle of the year after Vanessa Williams was stripped of her crown.
Slash (from Guns & Roses)	His mother is a Black American, and his father is a white Englishman. SLASH of Guns N'Roses, SLASH's Snakepit, and SLASH's Blues Ball is a great musician. This hard rocking lead guitarist plays from the heart with a blues edge.
Renee & Rosie Tenison	Their father is Black and their mother is White. They are currently modeling and acting. Renee won the title of the first African American Playmate of the Year.
Lani Guinier	Her father is Black and her mother is White. A prominent civil rights advocate and legal scholar and the first black women to be tenured at Harvard's law school. Guinier was nominated by President Clinton to be U.S. Assistant Attorney General in 1993. Her bid was withdrawn because of conservative attacks on her controversial solutions to racial problems. In her writings, Guinier explores the political process in America and the need to reinvigorate a grassroots-style of democracy
Solidad O'Brien	Her father is Australian (his parents are Irish, hence the surname 'O'Brien') her mother, is Black of Cuban heritage. Co-anchor of NBC's top-rated weekend morning news program, "Weekend Today." She also reports for "The NBC Nightly News." On MSNBC, she anchors "Morning Blend". Additionally, she contributes a technology column to MSNBC.com and is a contributing editor for USA Weekend magazine. Emmy-award winning anchor for the Discovery Channel's "Know Zone" in 1995; recipient of the 1997 Hispanic Achievement Award in Communications; member of the San Francisco Bay Area Black Journalists Association. Studied at Harvard University.

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