5. "I am a Black biracial woman, adopted by white parents when I was five and a half months old, so I never knew any biological family. I don’t think my parents ever discussed my race, but since ...

Searching for public records online, I discovered that my great-grandmother Monserrate Torres was classified as “C,” or colored for Black, in the 1930 United States Census, which judged people ...

My hair waved an ethnic flag that white people missed, but Black people saw straight away. I tried to explain to these inquisitive strangers that both the maternal and paternal sides of my family ...

Netflix’s ‘You People’ wasn’t funny at all to my Black and Mexican Jewish family Laughter doesn’t come easily when the jokes only make sense if you don’t exist, writes Cinthya Silverstein.

"Black people are amazing. They go above and beyond to help me," my mom told me in her final days, yet still amidst an air of disbelief. And, still, only with a whisper.

A family tree built on slavery. Growing up in Kansas, Pam Tucker always knew her father’s ancestors enslaved black people. In Kentucky, she was told.

My family honors Black history every time we vote. We know that our ancestors were not permitted to vote. We talk about the many people, including John Lewis, who have fought and continue to fight ...

But in many people's eyes, they will be considered Black.' And I kind of shook my head and said, 'OK,' and had yet another recognition that this was a world that was going to be very new to me ...

Certainly such pulls acted on my family ... A 1992 study by Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck indicated that a main predictor of migration by Black people from southern counties before 1930 was the ...

Black family reunions are a time for people to connect over shared history and memories as they reinforce family structure. This important tradition reunites relatives across time and place, and ...

"I would like that legacy to continue, not just in my family, but throughout the United States, so people would be aware of what our parents did, because they celebrated themselves by being true ...

"Black people are amazing. They go above and beyond to help me," my mom told me in her final days, yet still amidst an air of disbelief. And, still, only with a whisper.