One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

The first of them read, “No shade, Yall look beautiful but where is Eve’s family?” Similarly, someone else remarked, “Where’s the African American people?” Eve and her son are the only ...

Tati Gabrielle is the daughter of Traci (née Hewitt) and Terry Hobson. Tati’s mother, Traci, is of Korean descent, and her father is African American.