Editor’s Note: W. Kamau Bell is a sociopolitical comedian and the author of “The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6’4”, African-American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, ...
That’s how genealogical researchers have described the time period before emancipation in the US, when enslaved African Americans were treated as property – including on official documentation. “For ...
W. KAMAU BELL: My wife’s grandfather, when I first met him like I’d heard about him a lot he was this powerful patriarch of the family, the family all sort of swirled around him. Everybody loves him.