Gardening boomed during the pandemic. Six Black writers share how it has helped them re-establish, and reimagine, a connection to cultivation and the land.

Black people have been able to connect with the past and give new agency to their identities through building family trees and researching their family histories.

And in the U.S. and Latin America, the realities of racism pressured many families to identify as white despite Indigenous and Black roots. In the 2010 census, over half (53%) of Latinos ...