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Today years old learning that #KerryWashington is in fact mixed race!

Kerry Marisa Washington is an #American actress, producer, and director. She gained wide public recognition for starring as crisis management expert Olivia Pope in the ABC drama series Scandal. For her role, she was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and once for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Time magazine included her in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014. In 2018, Forbes named her the 8th highest-paid tv actress. She’s won a Primetime Emmy Award and 5 NAACP Image Awards, including The President’s Award. President Obama is a huge fan of hers.

She was born in the Bronx. Her father is #Black and her mother is mixed. “My mom comes from a #mixedrace background but from #Jamaica, so she is partly #English and #Scottish and #NativeAmerican, but also descended from #African slaves in the Caribbean. My dad’s family is four or five generations Brooklyn-based, but before that from South Carolina, and we are not sure which members of his family were slaves and which were free blacks.” Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell is her cousin.

“I was really lucky to be raised by a woman who taught me that what was inside was much more important than what was outside.”

Another fun fact is that she can dance. "I’ve been taking dance for a long time, since I was a little girl. I had this very inspiring teacher named Larry Maldonado, for anybody from my neighborhood in the Bronx, he was our role model. And he had an awesome substitute teacher named Jennifer, who would sometimes step in and teach. But, then she left to move to Los Angeles and be on the TV show In Living Color. So, yes, I learned to dance from JLo!” 🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 #mixedgirl #til https://www.instagram.com/p/CVJY2VOlWyf/?utm_medium=tumblr

#kerrywashington #american #black #mixedrace #jamaica #english #scottish #nativeamerican #african #mixedgirl

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mixdgrlproblems · 1 month

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The only appropriate way to spend St. Patrick’s Day is to continue to stand up against the occupation and oppression of all people around the world. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

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Stay strong my people. Stay strong.

#haiti #gang violence #pray for haiti #🇭🇹

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mixdgrlproblems · 2 months

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RAYE extends her record as the artist with the most wins in one year in #BRITs history, with 6 wins:

– Album of the Year

– Artist of the Year

– Song of the Year

– Best New Artist

– Songwriter of the Year

– Best R&B Act

#raye #biracial #mixedgirls #mixedrace #mixedgirlbeauty #mixedchick #mixedgirlshoutout #mixed #mixedgirl #multiracial #beauty

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mixdgrlproblems · 2 months

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The Zodiac Series: Book 1 - Capricorn Ch. 1 (Patrons Only) NOW AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE!

Being able to watch my stories has always been a dream of mine and now you can!

Since I can't post bonus content like this on Wattpad and since I put so much work into it...I don't think it should be free tbh lol. Here's a special edition of the first chapter of Capricorn for patrons only but now available for everyone! Subscribe to me for more awesomeness and for all an all access pass to all my work! Let me know what you think!

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mixdgrlproblems · 3 months

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