Black History Month's Series: The story of Eliza and Miles.

The enslaved children were sold and shipped from Virginia to Louisiana with their families in the 1830s, far from the world they knew and the people they loved.

What Is Black Love Day?

On Feb. 13, 1993, Ayo Handy-Kendi, a community organizer and native of Washington, D.C., created the holiday to celebrate communal love and pride in being “unapologetically Black.”

Overton Randolph, a descendant of one of Eliza’s siblings. Gerald Brown.