Understanding all too well the difficulties children of mixed race have in navigating both sides in the cultural tug of war, it is important to hear from them directly. We included Meghan Markle, whose father is German and mother is African American, as she is the first American who has married into the Royal family since 1937.
Black people are mixed with various different ethnicity’s from Native Indian, French, Spanish, European and many other ethnic backgrounds. We all have our cultural difficulties and when you are of mixed race those difficulties are multiplied. The moral of the story would be, be the best “you” you can be, because no one can do “you” better. [Read more…]
Albert Jackson was born a slave in Delaware around 1856 and his mother Ann Maria Jackson fled in 1858 with her seven children to Philadelphia, where African-American abolitionist William Still ran a station of the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves get to Canada. The family settled in Toronto and in 1882, when many Black men worked as labourers or in the service industry, Jackson landed a government-appointed job as a letter carrier. On his first day, white postmen refused to train him because he was black, so he was reassigned to hall porter. 
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.