Two experts in the field of transracial adoption — who were both adopted by white families themselves — explain how to best prepare to welcome a child of another race into your family and to have the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The realities of transracial adoption are often more nuanced than what can be explained in a tweet, experts say. (Photo: Getty ...

A prominent civil rights leader who most people believed to be black is actually white, according to her parents — and Twitter's freaking out about it. On Thursday, the parents of Rachel Dolezal — the ...

Adoption is sometimes touted by anti-abortion advocates as an alternative to abortion. Two transracial adoptees discuss their opposite positions on abortion and how they got there. Abortion rights ...

Transracial adoptees and their allies are speaking out about Rachel Dolezal's and other's use of the term “transracial” in conversations wrestling with her identity, arguing that it does not mean ...

Creating a family through adoption -- especially one that includes children from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds -- can come with unanticipated challenges for both parents and siblings. Love ...

Abby Johnson, a noted antiabortion activist who spoke at the Republican National Convention, once posted a YouTube video (subsequently removed) saying that police would be well-advised to be wary of ...

Rachel Dolezal has sparked a conversation that we didn’t even know we needed to have: Can one be transracial? Is it possible for one’s physical race to mismatch with how they feel on the inside?

Each week, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines. Rachel Garlinghouse ...

Infamous race-faker Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who was outed for pretending to be black in 2015, still insists she’s African American and complained in a recent interview she’s been unable to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melissa Guida-Richards grew up in an extended family that cherished their culture and heritage as Italian and Portuguese ...