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Stories from a nearly 400-year American family.

Discoveries from the archive, dispatches from the work of remembering, and reflections on a lineage that runs from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1670 to the age of AI.
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RACE the Opera: Dolphus Stroud Quest for 1928 Olympics

Jun 21, 2022 |

RACE the Opera Keith of KCME radio in Colorado Springs interviews Frank Shines, grandson of Tandy Stroud and great nephew of Dolphus Stroud. RACE the Opera will debut with a Workshop Performance on July 2, 2022, 2pm at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Tandy and...

The Eleven · Featured

Black Pride, Before the Movement Had a Name

For thirty years I read The Atlantic on planes between client sites, never knowing my own blood had stained its pages. In February 1939, my great-aunt Kimbal published an essay there — and named an idea the country wouldn’t be ready to hear for another quarter-century.
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June 2026 · 6 min read · by Frank “Rio” Shines

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History · 1670

Where the Record Really Begins

A manumission, a free Irishwoman, and a single colonial law that turned one family’s line free for good — pushing the documented story back to 1670.
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The Eleven

Walking to the Olympics

Kelley Dolphus Stroud covered nearly 2,000 miles chasing the 1928 trials and a Harvard mind — the journey at the heart of RACE, the Opera.
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Heritage

How Three Streams Became One Family

African, Native American, and British-Irish bloodlines crossed the Trail of Tears and met in the Rockies. The weave, traced strand by strand.
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Reaching Forward

Education Was Their Technology. AI Is Ours.

In the 1890s, K.D. and Lulu used schooling as the great equalizer. A century on, the family is restoring its own history with artificial intelligence.
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Legacy

The Family That Sat With Mandela

From a Texas plantation to the Apollo program to a handshake with a president and a freedom fighter — how far one name traveled in a century.
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From the Book

Slave House to White House

An excerpt from the forthcoming chronicle of the Strouds — a nearly four-century American story, told from the inside.
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