Tag: Pomba

As a mixed-race woman growing up in a white town in the Midwest with a First Nations reservation nearby, I struggled to find where I fit in. My father’s family wanted nothing to do with me, as my green eyes were proof there was a white rapist somewhere in the Afro-Disaspora bloodline (not that...

Everything I learned about being mixed-race, I learned by discovering Eartha Kitt. Eartha Kitt — actress, singer, dancer, and badass — was mixed race, and she paid the price for her birth. Her mother threatened to kill Eartha unless her sister took her in, as neither she nor her ...