Imagine the thrill of uncovering your great-grandparents’ lives — discovering where they came from — and walking the very streets they once called home, hand in hand with distant relatives you never ...

The Hollow Half' by Sarah Aziza isn't just about her eating disorder and recovery. Here, she explains why her story, like its ...

But I am grateful to have my new family — and the loud, boisterous merriment I dreamed of all those years before. Have a personal essay you'd like to share with TODAY? Email TODAYEssays@nbcuni.com.

Only months ago, my family survived Israel’s bombardment of northern Gaza, and I was detained by Israeli forces. Leila’s husband, who was deaf, was killed during Israel’s 2014 offensive in Gaza.

I tried again, thinking maybe its aversion was to my request for an essay: “Write 1,500 words on the role of aqueducts in ancient Rome’s success as an empire using six outside sources cited in ...

As my family experienced, under a mass deportation regime, the fear and chaos is the point, and those living here with all the right papers are not immune. While my grandfather was never swept up ...

These ratios are impossible!” Read More: The Love Story of My Chosen Family After the song “Yesterday” was released, did anyone complain to Paul McCartney, “You’re not half the man you ...

As a domestic, mixed-Black transracial adoptee, my search for my birth family and my beginnings was far easier to navigate, although I didn’t know it at the time I began searching. Growing up ...

Mom-i,” a photo project recreating childhood scenes with my maternal grandmother, is an exercise in empathy — and a search for belonging.

“How can I keep from damaging my children by telling them these hard stories about our family? What if all they take away is the bad, and they can’t see the good?” Courtesy of Penguin Random ...