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Noemie Lenoir	Her mother is African (from an island off Madagascar), and her father is French (according to Phenom Mag). She moved from Europe to New York because she said, "It's more easy for mixed girl(s), to come to New York for work". She has appeared in British Elle, American Elle and i-D and scored good money for campaigns for the Gap and Ralph for Ralph Lauren. She's modeled for just about every top designer globally and was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Noemi has also shot for the Victoria's Secret campaign.
August Wilson	His father was White (a German immigrant) his mother was Black. August Wilson has been hailed since the mid-1980s as an important talent in the American theatre. His first commercial success was Ma Rainey's Black Bottom which went on to Broadway where it enjoyed 275 performances and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He also won the Pulitzer Prize for drama twice for Fences and The Piano Lesson.
Valentina	Her mother is White (Danish) her father is Black (West African). This model/actress has done more than 30 music videos for MTV, VH-1 and BET. She also has done posters, billboards, magazines, catalogs, and calendars as well as make appearances on TV shows and a few movies.
Richard "Humpty Vission	His bio says he is a Mexican-African-Dutch born Canadian. The multi-dimensional Richard "Humpty" Vission has emerged as an innovator of House Music. At 26, This has been mixing since high school, and is dedicated to bringing the best House music from around the world to Los Angeles via the radio airwaves, the club circuit, and producing his own records including his latest Shut the F*** Up and Dance. He has also done numerous remixes and written songs for The Movement, Rupaul and Madonna among others.
Allen and Albert Hughes	Their mother is Armenian their father is Black (from an interview they did with Ed Morales. When asked how they deal with mixed-race issues in their lives they responded, "We always felt like outsiders. Black people don't like you because you're part white and white people don't look at you cause you're still a nigger. We always had the outsider's look at everything, so we always viewed everything like a movie."). This directing duo known as the Hughes Brothers has directed American Pimp, Menace II Society and Dead Presidents.
Joshua Redman	His father is Black (saxophonist Dewey Redman) and his mother is White (a Russian-Jewish dancer). He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard and turned down a chance to study law at Yale in order to become a professional musician. After winning the saxophone prize in the 1991 Thelonious Monk competition, he embarked on a hectic but much lauded recording binge. His albums include Passage of Time, Beyond and Freedom in the Groove.
Kathleen Cross	Her mother is white and her father is Black. Author of Skin Deep. She has spent her entire life in the Black community, much of that time working for issues that are of primary importance to Black Americans. Working with biracial children has also become an important job for Kathleen. She helps to fortify their self-esteem, heal their wounds, toughen them up, and educate them.
Tom Morello	His father is Black (Kenyan) and his mother is White. A Harvard political science honors graduate and guitartist for Rage Against the Machine. After Harvard he went to L.A and started his rock career. He played with several bands, which were unsuccessful, and tried teaching guitar to get along, and finally took a job as a California senator's secretary. He then formed a band called "Lockup" with the guitarist of Tool, where Tom did backing vocals. Eventually he met up with Zack De La Rocha and they formed Rage Agains the Machine. Their albums include: Rage Against the Machine, Evil Empire, The Battle of Los Angeles, and Renegades.
Roche	His mother is White and his father is Black. Roche conducts the Drive at Five on WJSE 102.7 in New Jersey. He is on the air weekdays between 3PM to 7PM.
Will Lemay	According to his website he is half Black and half White, I don't know which parent is which. Signed with Ford Modeling agency in 1996. Designer John Bartlett decided to have Will open his 1996/97 Fall/ Winter New York collection. After opening John Bartlett's show his career skyrocketed. To this day will remains one of the most consistant male models in the business, still going strong.
Omar Wasow	His father is of German Jewish heritage, and his mother is African- American (from an article in the New York Times). He is the executive director of BlackPlanet.com, launched in September 1999, and Media Metrix named it one of the 50 most popular sites on the Net. He also is an Internet pundit for MSNBC, the NBC "Today" show and "Oprah," where he taught Oprah Winfrey how to surf the Web. And he is in demand as a speaker at technology conferences.
Malik	His mother is white, and his father is black (from MTV.com). Member of The Real World 10 New York cast. A University of California at Berkeley student and Bay Area deejay who's also planning to open his own club with some friends.
Nicole	According to MTV.com, "she has a mix of black and white roots..." Member of The Real World 10 New York cast. She is a 4.0 GPA student at Morris Brown University.
Ward Connerly	His father was of African descent, Irish and Native American and his mother was a 1/4 Choctaw Indian, 1/4 Irish, and 1/2 Canadian French. He is the author of a newly-released autobiography, Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, is founder and chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute a national, not-for-profit organization aimed at educating the public about the problems created by racial and gender preferences. He has been profiled on 60 Minutes, the cover of Parade magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek magazine, and virtually every major news magazine in America. He has also appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Crossfire, Firing Line, Hannity & Colmes, The Crier Report, Meet the Press, Rivera Live, Dateline, Politically Incorrect, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and C-SPAN.

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