As the US closes in on 100,000 official COVID-19 deaths - the real toll is undoubtedly higher - other numbers tell the story of the pandemic's disparate impact on Black and Indigenous communities and communities of color.

On being a Brown Muslim mom raising a Brown Muslim daughter in a town considered progressive.

Food, books and relationships with other mixed race, immigrant and/or minority families help us build our unique family story.

Being biracial doesn’t mean that a person is somehow inferior—but it doesn’t mean that they have to be superior either. And it certainly doesn’t mean that they must have magical powers.

When author Megan Dowd Lambert is out and about with her brown children they get all sorts of reactions. The one that vexes her most is when she's asked, “Where are they from?"

Along with the regular childhood pressures of fitting in, there is this looming modern Demogorgon that hovers over Muslim children today that makes them feel unwanted, somehow un-American.

What we allow will continue. What continues will escalate.

Writer and EmbraceRace contributor Megan Dowd Lambert shares resources and books that she and/or her children have found valuable, particularly with regard to navigating their lives and relationships in a blended, multiracial, queer, adoptive family.