Biracial and Multiracial

Marvin Russell, Sarah Willie-LeBreton, and Veena Goel Crownholm join HuffPost Live to discuss the challenge of being multi-racial in America.
"Tom’s bullying was brutal. He made fun of my name. He made fun of my weight. He made fun of my family, my school work, my clothes. Nothing was off-limits."
"Unknowingly, I started to reject all of the parts of myself that were Black."
The passenger said she and her 10-year-old child should receive an apology for the "traumatizing" experience, and called on people to "check your bias."
"For all my daydreaming of my child, there was one constant: I knew she would be brown-skinned like me."
Through my hair journey from childhood to adulthood, I was able to shift from culturally curious, to culturally confident.
"How do we begin to mend not only the things that I have experienced but the entire 400 years of intergenerational trauma I have inherited?"
Here's some expert-backed advice to guide conversations about racism in multiracial families.
"The many ways I chose to wear my hair had everything to do with my navigating my racial identity as a mixed girl struggling to find where she fit in."
Leslie Wiser founded Radical Family Farms to explore her own biracial identity. What she didn’t expect was that the farm would become a pillar of community for other Asian Americans who had a similar longing in their lives.