February 1 - When Did You First Realize You Were Black?

Throughout Black History Month (and beyond), we’ll be focusing on questions of identity. For day one, we’re asking a question also asked in How To Be Black: when did you first realize you were black? And if you’re not black, we’re still interested! When did you first realize you were [insert here]?

Submit your story (especially in video), and check out what The Black Panel said in the book.

Here’s how:

• Pick a question to answer from this list or make your own
• Click here or the “Submit” button on the top of the page
• Choose how you’d like to submit. We appreciate video submissions (upload to Vimeo/Youtube then embed) but you can submit in other formats.
• Indicate the question you’re answering in the title or post section! This will help us a ton when organizing the submissions.