As part of writing my memoir I'm researching my maternal ancestry on Ancestry.com. My mother died when I was only two years old, and for reasons I am exploring, her story (and hence part of my identity) was buried along with her. Raised in a 1950s New Jersey stepfamily, but truly nurtured by my elderly… Continue reading George Floyd’s Murder is Making Me See My Family’s Incongruous History as White America’s Dilemma in Microcosm