-- By Pat Simmons The beginning of my author bio reads, “Pat Simmons is a self-proclaimed genealogy sleuth who is passionate about researching her ancestors and then casting them in…
Pat SimmonsNovember 3, 2022
-- 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…
Lee GuionSeptember 10, 2022
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
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