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        Our Stories, Our Experiences: Defining who we are      

 


CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 20)
 

AQUARIUS
(Jan. 21-Feb.19)
 


PISCES
(Feb.20-March 20)
 

ARIES
(March 21 - April 20)
 


TAURUS
 (April 21 - May 21)
 


GEMINI
 (May 22- June 21)
 


CANCER
 (June 22 - July 23)
 


LEO
 (July 24 - Aug. 23)
 
VIRGO
 (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23)


LIBRA
 (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23)
 

SCORPIO
 (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)
 

SAGITTARIUS
 (NOV. 23- DEC. 21)
 
  CANCER
 (June 22 - July 23)

 

 
STEPHANIE JACOBSEN,  Actress                                                                              
D.O.B.: 06/22/80 (Cancer)
Mother:  Portuguese

Father: Chinese-Norwegian-English
 

Interesting fact:

  • She went to Sydney University where she graduated with a double major in Philosophy and English Literature.
     
  •  In 2008 she was cast on the Fox television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles[, playing Jesse; In April 2009, Jacobsen was cast on The CW's revamped Melrose Place in the role of call-girl/medical student Lauren Bishop.
     
 

 

 
SLASH,  Rock Star                                                                               
D.O.B.: 07/23/65 (Cancer)
Mother:  Black

Father: White (British)
On his mixed background:

"I came from a very small, white Catholic neighborhood in England. It must have shocked my grandparents when my dad came home with a black American woman who was pregnant," Slash told goodtimesmagazine.com. Being mixed, however, wasn't an issue at home, although he struggled a bit at school. "In school it might have been something else, but I just couldn't put my finger on in. Being bi-racial was just something I never really focused on."

"When I came to America, I didn't fit in at all," he continued. "At all! Not only was I biracial, but I wore holey jeans and rock & roll T-shirts. I was content with the fact that I didn't fit in."

Interesting fact:

  •  A British-American guitarist best known as the former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver
     
  • In January 2007, Slash was honored with a star on the Rock Walk of Fame; his name being placed alongside Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix
 


 

 
SELENA GOMEZ, Actress/Singer                                                                                
D.O.B.: 07/22/92 (Cancer)
Mother:  Italian

Father: Mexican
On her mixed background:

"I tell people, 'Remember, I'm Mexican and Italian, so don't make me mad."

Interesting fact:

  •  Best known for playing Alex Russo on the Disney Channel Original Series, Wizards of Waverly Place, and for starring in the Disney TV movie Princess Protection Program
 

 
 

NICOLE SCHERZINGER, Actress/Singer                                                                                 D.O.B.: 6/29/78  (Cancer)
Mother: Hawaiian, Russian

Father: Filipino
On her mixed background:

Scherzinger told Metrofrance.com that her multiracial background has a strong influence on her music. "It’s a great part of who I am. It definitely makes me multidimensional and that’s why my music is so eclectic."

Interesting fact:

She was the 1st runner up at the 1996 Kentucky State Fair's Coca-Cola Talent Classic contest.

Scherzinger is a member of the Pussycat Dolls singing group.

 

 

 

MICHELLE BRANCH, Musician                                                                                            D.O.B.: 07/02/1983 (Cancer)

Mother: French, Dutch, Indonesian

Father: Irish
On her mixed background:

"Its funny because my mom spoke Dutch and doesn’t know too much Indonesian," she told asianconnection.com. "And besides the Indonesian food and stuff like that, I really knew nothing about it growing up. I guess its part of the beauty of being American. All these different people with different backgrounds, and so I never felt like I really stood out or anything. I felt more like I had something that was special compared to other kids.”

Interesting fact: Branch was named after the Beatles' song, "Michelle."

Branch is a Grammy-award winning singer.

 
 

 

 
TIA & TAMARA MOWRY, Actresses                                                                                                 
D.O.B.: 07/06/1978 (Cancer)
Mother: African-American

Father: Italian-American
On their mixed background:

"I'd been praying for a church that's ethnically diverse. We're biracial, and I've never been around an area where it wasn't mixed. It felt weird going to a church with one ethnic background. It was like, 'Hmm, I know heaven isn't like this," Tamara told Christianity Today.

 Interesting fact:

Best known for their starring row in the hit series, Sister, Sister; Both are NAACP-award winning actresses.


 
 

 

 
DEREK JETER, Athlete                                                                                                                D.O.B.: 6/26/74 (Cancer)
Mother: Irish-American

Father: African-American
On being mixed:

"People didn't know what race I was. Most people thought I was Spanish, so I'd go up to hit and be on deck and people'd be speaking Spanish to me. I had no idea what they were saying!" he told 60 Minutes.

Jeter said that as a kid, he and his sister were taunted for being biracial and this ignorance had continued even after he'd been drafted for the Yankees. He recalled an incident during his visit back to his hometown in Kalamazoo,Michigan when someone called him the "n" word. "

 "It was disappointing because I was very proud of the fact of what I was able to do, you know, I am living my dream," he said. "Come back, see my friends for the first time, and… you still had to deal with ignorance."
 
 


 

 

CREE SUMMER, Actress/Musician                                                                                         
 D.O.B.: 04/07/69 (Cancer)
Mother: African-American, Native American (Cree)

Father: Canadian

Interesting fact:

  • Played Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the hit TV show A Different World

  •  Grew up on the Red Pheasant Reserve in Saskatchewan.

 
 

 

 
LONETTE MCKEE, Actress/Musician/Screenwriter/Producer                                                
D.O.B.: 07/22/1954 (Cancer)
Mother: Swedish-American

Father: African-American

On her mixed background:

"In the Detroit ghetto where I grew up, I wasn't accepted by white kids or black. I just didn't fit in," she told People. "Now I consider myself black, because I've never been given the same treatment, respect, or opportunities that blond, blue-eyed, white girls have gotten."

Interesting fact:

  • Began career as a recording artist in Detroit as a child music prodigy

  •  She is an avid animal lover with a particular ability to intuit and communicate with birds.
 


 

 
LYNDA CARTER, Actress                                                                                                          
D.O.B. 7/24/51 (Cancer)
Mother: Mexican

Father: Irish-American
 On her mixed background: 

Carter says that she identifies strongly with her Latin side. "I spent so much time with my grandmother, making tortillas and listening to music and being with the family," she told Time Out New York.

"Some of the best memories of my childhood were of being with my grandmother when she was making tortillas, having to cut the tripe when she made menudo, or sorting the sticks and stones out of the beans on her table."

Asked to comment on Jessica Alba's distancing herself from her Latin roots, Carter says,

 "Poor Jessica: She is so young... Give her a break. Most young people want an identity of their own, and not one tied to their parents. It’s easy for us to sit in judgment."

Interesting fact:

Famous for her role as Wonder Woman, where she performed many of the stunts.
 

 

 

 

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