by B. Kelly | Feb 25, 2026 | Ancestral Healing
There’s a reason they tried to take our names. During the transatlantic slave trade, one of the first things that happened to enslaved Africans upon arrival in the Americas was the removal of their names. Their given names — names that carried meaning, lineage,...
by B. Kelly | Feb 25, 2026 | Ancestral Healing
I was sitting in a county courthouse in rural Louisiana, holding a document older than anyone in my living family, when the question hit me: What happens to the pieces of ourselves we never get to know? The document was a census record from 1870 — the first census...
