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Celebrating 150 Years on The Hill

Cousins, I can't believe I let this anniversary slip by like I forgot who raised me! On August 14th, my beloved alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, celebrated 150 years and she needs to be celebrated. Prairie View’s story begins during Reconstruction. Established by the Texas Legis

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NC Genealogical Society Fall Lecture Series

Cousins, I have another workshop for you. Pull out the notebooks! The North Carolina Genealogical Society is hosting a lecture called “Tracing Enslaved Families: Using Court and Estate Records” with genealogist Ayo Heinegg Magwood on Friday, September 18th at 11:00 a.m. EDT. If you’ve ever re

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Garvey’s Blueprint for Black Power

Cousins, I've told ya’ll a million times that I'm a student of Brother Malcolm, and because of that, I'm a Garveyite almost by default. You can't seriously study Malcolm without eventually running straight into the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, but today I want to spend his 139th

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Abner Louima: Torture, Survival, and Triumph

Cousins, every time I get on Threads, I learn something new. And because we're family, when I learn something, I gotta bring it back over here and share it with ya'll. On August 9, 1997, Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant living in Brooklyn, was arrested outside of Club Rendez-Vous after

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Strange Fruit Still Growing

Lord, I’ve been sitting on this post for a minute because I already know it will lead to me cussing somebody of no color out. But I can’t sit on it anymore. How many more fvcking times are we going to have to open our phones and see that another Black person has been found hanging from a tree? T

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Varnado Simpson, My Lai, and the Weight of Vietnam

Cousins, remember last week when I told ya’ll not to be shocked if I started sprinkling in posts about Black soldiers who served during the Vietnam War? Well, I meant that and today’s story is a heavy one. Varnado Simpson was born October 7, 1948, in Jackson, Mississippi and entered the United S

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The Rooted Legacy Project on WordPress

Cousins, The Rooted Legacy Project has a new home on WordPress! Now before ya’ll start panicking, no, we are NOT getting rid of any of our other social media platforms. We’ll still be right here talking Black history, genealogy, culture, books, and whatever else sends me down a research rabbit

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Jonathan Jackson and the Marin County Courthouse Rebellion

Cousins, last Black August, I told ya'll about the Soledad Brothers and George Jackson. This year, I want to introduce ya'll to another member of the Jackson family: George's baby brother, Jonathan. In January 1970, three Black prisoners, W.L. Nolen, Cleveland Edwards and Alvin Mille

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A Genealogy Workshop for the Cousins

Cousins, if you're new here, you might not know that The Rooted Legacy Project actually started off as a genealogy page. Before the Black history discussions, we were talking about surnames, death certificates, census records, and everything in between. Even though Rooted has grown into so much

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Beyond Juneteenth: The Black History of Galveston

Cousins, ya'll know I'm from the island...Galveston, that is. And I don't know if ya'll were aware, but Galveston has way more Black history than just Juneteenth. Oh yes. The island is rich with Black history. Every neighborhood, every church, every school and every family h

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Happy Franklin Armstrong Day!

Cousins, today is a national holiday! On July 31, 1968, Franklin Armstrong became the first recurring Black character in Charles Schulz's Peanuts. He met Charlie Brown after returning his lost beach ball, and the two of them spent the afternoon building a sandcastle together. It was such an

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The Vietnam War Through Black Eyes

Cousins, this week I've been doing some cleaning mentally, spiritually, and physically. While organizing my bookshelf at home, I came across another really good book once owned by my great aunt Ella: Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans by Wallace Terry. Published in

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Building Legacy, One Cup at a Time

Cousins, one of the questions I get asked the most is, "How can I support The Rooted Legacy Project?" Well, if you didn’t know, I have a Buy Me a Coffee page! If you've ever learned something from one of my posts, joined a conversation, shared my content, or simply believe in what I'

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Family Poll Time!

Cousins, if I put together a 4-week Black August workshop, would y’all be interested? Some of the topics I'm thinking about are: • George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers • Angela Davis and the movement to Free Angela • Marcus Garvey, the Black Star Line, and Pan-Africanism • The Natio

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You Can't Dress Your Way Out of Racism

Cousins, are ya'll ready to have a real conversation about respectability politics in the Black community and how it's one of the most damaging forms of self hate we've ever been taught? Our whole lives, we've been taught that if we just looked a certain way, we'd be treated

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The Harlem Book Of The Dead By James Van Der Zee

Cousins, the other day we talked about funeral photography and how for many Black families, those photographs became a way of preserving the memory of our loved ones. Because my copy just arrived today, I want to put a book on your radar that I think is worth adding to your collection. The Harle

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Because "Ya'll Know What I Want" Ain't a Plan

Cousins, I know you guys have seen by now the conversation surrounding Malcolm-Jamal Warner's wife and mother. While I'm not going to get into that because it's not my business, I do want to use it as a reminder to make sure your own affairs are in order. A whole lot can happen when

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Honoring Our Dead: Funeral Photography

Cousins, how many of ya'll grew up seeing pictures of your deceased loved ones taken at their funerals? I know it wasn't just me. The first one I ever saw was of my great grandmother Nettie. Her daughter, my great aunt Pearl, had it. GG was lying peacefully, surrounded by flowers in her

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It's The Caucasity For Me!

Cousins, it has been brought to my attention that white people are trying to claim code switching and just...NO. FVCKING NOOOOOOOO! Ya'll have got to stop trying to put your name on every damn thing Black people create, experience, or survive, Christina and Christopher Columbus. Somewher

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Forced Smiles For White Comfort

Cousins, let’s talk about what happens when Black folk refuse to stick to the script that white people have for them in their heads. Booker Wright lived in Greenwood, Mississippi and worked as a waiter at a whites-only restaurant called Lusco's. Every day he put on a crisp white jacket, smil

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