Tracing ancestry is not easy for African Americans
BY BILL O’BOYLE
WILKES-BARRE —What’s in a name?
Everything, that’s what.
Just ask Kwaku King Adjei-Frimpong.
We’ll call him King because that’s the name he uses. King, 29, is the volunteer coordinator at the Commission on Economic Opportunity, a job he’s had since November, 2011. He’s a Southern California kid, having grown up in Fullerton and attending UCLA.
This is about names and knowing who we are and where we come from.
Most of us, including King and I, know our ancestral history or can easily research it. We can trace family records and census records and go back as far as we want to discover who we are, where we came from and what great deeds our ancestors accomplished.
Not so for most African Americans.