Tag: Racial Identity

Doja Cat opened up about her journey with self-love, her biracial identity, and long-standing internet rumors, sharing that her struggles with self-identity began around age eight after moving to a predominantly white neighborhood.

Nearly a decade after Rachel Dolezal became the face of one of the most infamous identity scandals in recent American history, another white woman has found herself at the center of a very similar controversy in Philadelphia. Hannah Gann, a teacher and activist known for her work in local racial justice and pro-Palestinian organizing, misrepresented herself as Black, Palestinian and Tunisian for years. In an apology posted online, Gann described herself as a white woman of Jewish heritage, acknowledging that she hid the truth about her background and lied to everyone in her life about who she was.

Raven-Symoné doesn't fully identify as African American, she believes it oversimplifies her complex heritage.