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First steps in writing a family history?

Last year, I decided that I wanted to learn more about my family history and start writing a narrative that centers on my grandmother, a woman who immigrated to the U.S. as a domestic worker in the early 1970s. I'm not sure if this will…
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Revising Period Dramas: Bridgerton and the Erasure of Black British History

Bridgerton has become one of Bridgerton’s erasure of the real history of Black Britons in its first season signals that period drama’s legacy of whitewashing history and fiction remains the standard.
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Meghan Markle and Olivia Fairfield: Mixed-race Wives, White Husbands, and the Return Home

Comparing Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, to 1808's The Woman of Colour's Olivia Fairfield highlights a long history of prejudice across the Atlantic.