The Kinsey Collection Celebrates Black Artists

It began with a third-grade homework assignment for Khalil Kinsey: build your family tree. But Khalil remembers that he couldn’t go far back in his family’s lineage. Because of the slave trade, those records don’t exist. For millions of people brought to America as slaves and their descendants, their family lineage was obliterated. “I can still remember the feeling that I had as a young boy,” Khalil says. “Without having those types of answers and feeling inadequate in comparison with my classmates.”