Where do you feel like you belong?
The question of where do we fit in is one we all face at some point. And some people have an easier time answering it than others.
Regina Boone is a photojournalist. She was born in Richmond, Virginia. When she was seven, her family moved to Baltimore.
Boone grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood and went to a predominantly white all-girls prep school. She says her home life, however, was “very everything black.”
“We had a picture of Frederick Douglass on the wall. I had a picture of Harriet Tubman. We had Gordon Parks photography on the wall, some Japanese artwork,” she said.
Part of that “very everything black” upbringing included Boone’s parents telling her she had to apply to a historically black college or university. Boone says her first college acceptance letter came from Spelman College, and since that’s where…
