It's 25 years since Madness hit the charts with a jaunty pop song that hid a bleak story about a mixed-race pregnancy. In a generation, attitudes to inter-racial relationships have changed strikingly.

Children are less likely to be White and more likely to be mixed-race. That trend continues for infants. There are a lot of groups on the charts above, so we can just break out the mixed-race ...

"There I was (my curly hair, my freckled face, my pale skin, my mixed race) looking down at these boxes, not wanting to mess up but not knowing what to do. You could only choose one, but that ...

She is also a veteran public school educator and parent of Black and mixed-race children in Providence, Rhode Island. Catherine Anderson with her sons. Source: Catherine Anderson, used with ...