Despite painful losses, she clung to her chosen family to stay focused on the future — This story is part of Know Their Names, a collection of articles illuminating and celebrating the lives of Black Trans women. At first, Chynal Lindsey was apprehensive about finding her birth family. “What if they don’t like me?” Hilliary Calhoun, a childhood friend, recalls Chynal saying. But anyone who knew…

Hairstylists have found a new way to market their businesses, but it has come at a price — On any given Saturday, you will find Black women busy ministering to each other, congregating in spaces akin to church. We do not leave the same way we came in. …