Pew Research Center

For Many Black Americans, Family Extends Beyond Birth and Legal Ties

Relatives meet at Conroe Community Cemetery in Conroe, Texas, where many of the town’s earliest Black residents are buried, in February 2025. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) About ...
Pew Research Center

How Black Americans define family

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on how Black Americans define and experience family – that is, who is included in their family networks and how they provide support to one another. Pew ...
Essence

From Slavery To $50 Billion: The Untold Story Of The Black Family Who Built America's Landmarks

When Cheryl McKissack Daniel walks into any boardroom and realizes she’s the only Black woman there (which happens more often than it should in 2025) she thinks about her great-great-great grandfather ...
East Bay Times

Piedmont’s first Black family sues city over century-old racial discrimination

PIEDMONT — Descendants of Piedmont’s first Black residents are suing the city for the forced expulsion of Sidney Dearing and his family in 1925 — an era of white mobs, a KKK-aligned police chief, ...
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First Black family to own a home in wealthy California neighborhood says white residents forced them out with threats — now the city faces a reckoning

A descendant of the first Black family to own a home in affluent Piedmont, California, is suing the city for forcing her great-grandfather to sell his home and inducing the family to flee nearly a ...