Yes. However, I have never thwarted an opportunity to connect with Black people or people of color. I was picked on, of course, by outsiders, and my family stood up for me. I was exposed to ...

but Black people saw straight away. I tried to explain to these inquisitive strangers that both the maternal and paternal sides of my family have members with big-bodied, curly hair. Like hair ...

I’d met many of these people on trips to Puerto Rico. My Tío had visited us in ... her mother and her grandmother as Black, she concedes that her family had Black ancestry.

I didn’t know it at the time, but seven years after leaving a volatile and abusive relationship—one marked by physical, ...

Growing up in Kansas, Pam Tucker always knew her father’s ancestors enslaved black people. In Kentucky ... “after thought and discussion with my family.’’ She wrote that the story should ...

Surely, I suspect, to keep my extended family safe from shame ... On a much broader level, and throughout the U.S., I believe that Black people and, especially, Black women have, in fact, been ...

Instead, in creating the world for “You People,” the writers ... Even in my culturally blended family, where my Mexican immigrant parents regularly share meals with my Black mother-in-law ...

He’d long kept a family secret to himself ... I can’t abandon the Black people in my heritage. I think they’re amazing people, and I don’t want to lose those stories.” ...

I don’t remember when my family first introduced me to Kwanzaa ... “Kwanzaa is a wonderful time, because we talk about the issues Black people are facing and how we can solve those issues ...