It’s tradition to sing “Happy Birthday” when celebrating a friend or family member’s entrance into the world. But for many black people, the familiar birthday song alone just won’t do.

On a small U.S. island there is a young man named Kurt Marsh Jr. He lives with his extended family on land that has been in his family for countless generations. Before that his family worked the ...

These happy family videos feel like they’re simply continuing the long, drawn-out trend of showing off the best of our lives—which may or may not actually exist, or might be exaggerated—for ...