“It was an affront to all Black people. I needed to make a connection to my ancestors for strength. I knew there was something in my family — in all Black people’s families — that shows ...

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.

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 ...

Black people are not a monolith ... If you are wondering, Ebony and I ended up not getting my family a gift. Instead, I felt like I received one of the greatest gifts from her of all time ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do I take care of my family, my immediate family ... land was from those willing to sell it to them. In many cases, Black people who had land were renting it from a landowner, who required ...

Most Saturdays, while my mother visited her family a few blocks away ... where nearly 95 percent of residents are Black, people live to an average of only 60. Over this past year, Black lives ...

But in many people's eyes, they will be considered Black.' And I kind of shook my ... I know what James means, and it seems like my entire family does as well. The constant staring and confusion ...

The black people I come from were owned and raped by ... You cannot say it wasn’t my family members who fought and died. My blackness does not put me on the other side of anything.

Black people in our country face racism every day ... And yet, I was raised primarily by the Black side of my family. This is why it is so important for me to identify as both Black and white ...