Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow team up each week to produce “Mixed Chicks Chat,” an award-winning podcast about multiracial identity in America.
Cox, 39, and Durrow, 40, both of Los Angeles, also organize a Mixed Roots Literary and Film Festival during the annual celebration of Loving Day, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned laws against interracial marriage.

Both women are actresses who identify as multiracial, making them part of the fastest growing demographic in the country. They were up for the same part 10 years ago and viewed each other as competition, but their shared racial identity eventually drew them together and led them to collaborate on a nascent cultural phenomenon — dialogue about multiracial identity in America.

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