Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first was a person who did not acknowledge her own heritage, but instead passed for white, biracial actress Merle Oberon, ...

Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work. Merle Oberon in the 1935 Oscar-nominated ...

When Michelle Yeoh was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once, the overdue honor came with an appalling statistic: Yeoh is the first Asian woman to be nominated in ...