Retropolis A white couple, a mixed-race baby and a forbidden adoption. In 1966 in the nation’s capital, what Kara and Frank Speltz wanted to do simply wasn’t allowed.

The number of mixed-race babies has soared over the past decade, new census data show, a result of more interracial couples and a cultural shift in how many parents identify their children in a ...

President Obama, for example, identified himself as one race — black — on his census form, even though his mother was white. Read more at the Washington Post. Like The Root on Facebook .

CNN was ridiculed Monday over a widely shared sub headline asking "How black will the royal baby be?" in an analysis piece about rejecting dangerous mixed-race "myths" after the Duchess of Sussex ...

Genetically a mixed race and European couple, who are expecting twins, have about a one in 500 chance that the babies will have different skin colours, but how does this genetic phenomenon occur?

In this way, white parents can also produce a black child, as in the recently filmed biopic of Sandra Laing, the black baby born to Afrikaner parents at the height of apartheid in the mid-1950s.

A mixed-race British mom gave birth to twins recently — one of each. No, not a boy and a girl. Two girls — one black, the other white. The odds of such a birth are about a million to one ...

In black and white (no pun intended), the answer seems obvious. It’s the new normal and we must accept the fact that people have the right to adopt children no matter the race or ethnicity when ...

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I wondered how these gaps in our appearances could correlate to our different experiences being mixed race. Sometimes I wonder if people think I'm just a friend around you and mom and Ben, or that ...

Her mention of her identification as “Mixed White & Black Caribbean” further emphasizes the confusion and frustration that can arise from an overly rigid definition of race. Living as a mixed ...