Since 2011, Rae has continued to develop her YouTube channel, which features various short films, web series, and other content created by people of color.\n', '

Rae was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Dr. Abdoulaye Diop, is a pediatrician and neonatologist from Senegal, and her mother, Delyna Diop (née Hayward), is a teacher from Louisiana and is African-American. Rae\'s parents met in France, when they were both in school. Rae has four siblings. The family lived in Dakar, Senegal, for a short period during her childhood. Her father has a medical practice in Inglewood, California.:xiii\n', '

As a child, Rae lived in Potomac, Maryland, where she grew up with "things that aren\'t considered \'black,\' like the swim team and street hockey and Passover dinners with Jewish best friends." When Rae was in sixth grade, her family moved to the affluent View Park-Windsor Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she attended a predominantly black middle school. Rae said that, there, she was "berated for \'acting white\'" and initially found it difficult to "fit into this \'blackness\' I was supposed to be." Rae graduated from King Drew Magnet High School of Medicine and Science, where she started acting. Her parents divorced when she was in high school.:100–102\n', '

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