This is what childhood looks like with Black skin. And when we aren’t worried about our safety, we are still forced to carry the basic burden of being Black in America.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — It's through the power of hip hop that rising Lexington high school freshman, Javin Hausley, is expressing her lived experience as a Black woman in America.

Making Black America showcases Black people’s ability to define Blackness in America. Making Black America: Through the Grapevine is a four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., that ...