Best Of: A family split by race / Eddie Glaude Jr. on America at 250

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole family roots inspired New Orleanian journalist Susan Saulny to research her Creole great-uncle who moved to Chicago, identified himself as white and never returned. She describes her journey to reunite her family. Her piece in the New York Times is called "A Family Secret No More." As the United States turns 250, scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. has blunt advice: “America has to grow…