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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…
Photo of little Black girl reading and writing.Photo by Marta Wave
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Erasure of the horrors of enslavement

What are the implications of arguing the benefits of slavery?
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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.
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A Search for Caribbean Culture and the Tobago Heritage Festival

A life-long search for my Caribbean culture leads to the Tobago Heritage Festival.
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Searching for my Roots

As a child of Caribbean immigrants, I have spent my life asking questions about my heritage and learning that there may not be answers.