biracial americans

A new Cheerios commercial featuring a family with a black dad, a white mom and a biracial child produced so much controversy on YouTube last week that Cheerios requested the comments section be turned off. Camille Gibson, vice president of marketing for Cheerios, said it’s the first time the ad campaign that focuses on family […]

There were 784,764 U.S. residents who described their race as white and black in the last census. But that number didn’t include Laura Martin, whose father is black and mother is white. “I’ve always just checked black on my form,” said Martin, a 29-year-old university employee in Las Vegas. She grew up surrounded by black family […]