Black Women and the White Men They Love
The book Is Marriage for White People? says that black women have the power to alter the "relationship market" by marrying interracially. If so, these celebs are agents of change.
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The Somali supermodel and businesswoman was set up with British rock royalty David Bowie by their shared hairdresser. "It was nerve-racking at the beginning, the first five minutes, but we got along very famously, and we have been together since then," she said in an interview. The power couple walked down the aisle in 1992 and have a daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones.
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Roxie RokerCBSLenny Kravitz's mom was best known for playing half of the first interracial couple on prime-time television -- she was Helen Willis on The Jeffersons (she's pictured here with her TV husband). Art imitated life. In 1962 Roker married, and later divorced, Russian Jewish television producer Sy Kravitz




