“My husband doesn’t have a lot, neither of us do. We scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies, but after almost 2 years of dating we decided that we couldn’t wait anymore, so we didn’t. I wasn’t even thinking about rings, I just wanted to marry my best friend, but […]

Harriet E. Wilson was born in 1825 in Milford, New Hampshire, to a white mother and a Black father. After her mother passed away, she was given away as a servant to a white family, where she endured many years of exploitation and hardship. Growing up with little education, she worked as an indentured servant […]

My world changed at 17 when I found out I was pregnant. Later, while my marriage crumbled under the weight of betrayal, I noticed a white spot on my skin. No matter how hard I scrubbed, it grew larger. The doctor’s words cut deep: ‘There’s no cure.’ Looking at those images on his laptop, I […]

A year ago, a man stopped me on a lonely road. His face was covered, and in his trembling hands was a knife. He demanded money. I was terrified—shaking, my heart racing. I gave him everything I could. But what struck me most was not the knife…it was his eyes. Behind the fear and desperation, […]

The mother of the legendary American actor and producer Kirk Douglas (and thus the grandmother of the equally famous actor Michael Douglas), Bryna Danielovich (Demsky), came from the village of Ceausi in the Mogilev Governorate of the Tsarist Empire. In her youth, she was engaged to Herschel, who, after their engagement, left for America. A […]