Special Report: Reporting Black America
Elizabeth Wellington on “Choosing Blackness”
Wellington's racial reckoning can be traced back to a moment in time when she had likened a white actress on TV to her mother, expressing that they were both white women. At that moment, her mother, the older Wellington, gently took her hands and explained that although her skin tone was very light, she was a Black woman
Sughnen Yongo-Okochi • September 20, 2021
