-- By Lee Guion I stood looking at an old postcard of a rectangular two-story brick building with a chimney and peaked roof. Faded lettering identifies it as the first…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 talked with CTTT member Beverly Bevel about her experiences researching her enslaved and enslaver ancestors. In 2019, Beverly founded “The Lewellen Project,” a non-profit organization with the mission to…
*CONTENT CAUTION: Racist, dated imagery and vocabulary -- By Yvette Rubio “Besides, all the Chinese are not opium eaters, nor are all negroes dirt eaters.” Theodore Bailly Blanchard, Jr.…