In their voices: Black Americans on transracial adoption

Moving beyond the controversy of the transracial adoption of black and biracial children

Jim Crow Era (1877-1954). Evelyn Rhodes, great grandmother and matriarch

W. Wilson Goode Sr., first black mayor of Philadelphia (1984-92)

Cyril C. Pinder, mentor and former national football league player.

Civil Rights Era (1955-72). Arthur E. McFarlane II, great grandson of W. E. B. du Bois and advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage

Lora Kay (pseudonym), principal of a charter school in Washington, D.C

Chester Jackson, professional adoption worker and adoptive father

Henry Allen, professor of sociology.

Post-Civil Rights Era (1973-present). Vershawn A. Young, author and scholar

Michelle M. Hughes, adoption attorney and adoptive mother

Mahisha Dellinger, CEO and founder of curls

Deneta Howland Sells, physician and civil rights advocate

Tabitha, child welfare bureau chief

Bryan Post, CEO of the post institute for family-centered therapy and adoptee

Shilease Hofmann, spouse of a transracial adoptee

Chelsey Hines, foster care alumna and transracial adoptee

Demetrius Walker, entrepreneur and cofounder of the DN/BE Apparel

Multicultural adoption plan.