Schacana Geter called her mother four times about her grocery list. In her fifth call, she was screaming for her life.

She found a backdoor at Tops Friendly Market and barely escaped the racist Buffalo shooter. huffpost.com/entry/buffalo-… Though she made it out alive, Schacana and her mother Priscilla said the trauma of the racially motivated shooting has made the last few days very difficult. huffpost.com/entry/buffalo-…

Jeffrey James Madison was driving to his engagement party when he was pulled over and eventually found himself surrounded by several patrol cars and a SWAT team. huffpost.com/entry/black-ma… Madison was told that two Black men inside a red sports car were seen fleeing the scene of an attempted carjacking of a white man. When he pointed to his large sedan and said he was the only one in the vehicle, the cop responded that "somebody might be hiding in [his] trunk."

Miriam Zinter was outside her house gardening when a comment by a neighbor brought her lovely day to a screeching halt.

“Why do you have a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign on your front lawn when all those people do is kill each other,” her neighbor asked.
huffpost.com/entry/black-wo… “You know I’m Black, right?” Zinter replied.

Zinter has two Black parents, with white ancestors. She was born very light-skinned, with blue eyes and light, wavy hair. This isn’t the first time she’s had to have this conversation. This has been going on for a very long time.

When Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye began delving into foundation as a teen, she struggled to find product lines that carried her shade. The problem still persists today for dark-skinned Black women — and she decided to do something about it. huffpost.com/entry/ami-col%… The 31-year-old created Ami Cole, an award-winning brand that focuses specifically on melanin-rich skin while amplifying A-beauty, merging African heritage and clean, natural ingredients in its products.

Scott Brown, who is Black, and his husband, who is white, are the proud foster-to-adopt parents of a white 21-month-old son. "We have become the object of such fascination due to the unconventional makeup of our family," writes Brown. huffpost.com/entry/black-da… As an interracial couple, their only request was that the child they would end up adopting be a mix of something. When they were "presented with the whitest baby on the face of the earth," Brown was confused. "Those were usually the ones reserved for white heterosexual couples."

The four-part docuseries “Black and Missing” debuts on HBO today, chronicling the journey of two sisters-in-law, Derrica and Natalie Wilson, who are bringing awareness to Black missing persons cases ignored by law enforcement and national media. huffpost.com/entry/black-mi… Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir and journalist Soledad O’Brien, the series spotlights different cases and the nuances that distinguish them, including the impacts of online grooming and domestic violence. huffpost.com/entry/black-mi…