On October 25, 2023 Dionne Ford, author of the memoir Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing (2023), answered questions from participants of the…
BitterSweet EditorsNovember 29, 2023
We are happy to bring you the story of Jesse Lee, a veteran of the 1st Virginia Cavalry and the 2nd great-grandfather of LeRoy G. Potts. LeRoy wrote about his…
BitterSweet EditorsJuly 21, 2023
Marion Tango read this powerful original poem at the 2023 Coming to the Table National Gathering. Watch and listen here to Marion Why I Don’t Use the n-word It’s…
BitterSweet EditorsJune 21, 2023
--By BitterSweet Editors "What if, when people picture folks with Confederate heritage, they imagine people — Black, White, and multiracial — who hold a special commitment to destroying White supremacy?"…
BitterSweet EditorsJanuary 21, 2023
Although Baynard Woods is an accomplished journalist, we first came across his name in a piece he wrote for the Washington Post called “My name is a Confederate monument, so…
BitterSweet EditorsAugust 23, 2022
This is the final post in our series that started in 2021, where we share artwork and writeups of the creative process, from our Linked Descendants’ working group members. Some…
BitterSweet EditorsAugust 8, 2022
The Linked Descendants working group gathered in May to learn more about what white descendants of enslaver families can do to support African American researchers. We heard stories from Briayna…
BitterSweet EditorsJuly 28, 2022
Elizabeth Avery Thomas ponders her family legacy as a descendant of enslavers through a technique called speculative nonfiction. As she writes at the close of this piece, 'In my current…
BitterSweet EditorsJune 22, 2022
Developed for the Linked Descendants meeting, May 2022 African American family history and genealogy researchers often find their work made more difficult or blocked altogether by the legacies of slavery…
BitterSweet EditorsMay 27, 2022