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GYPSUM Carla Whirley is a taxidermist, not to be confused with a tax specialist.
But with more people hunting during and following the pandemic, business is good, and she’s taking a second look at accepting the monthly payments available to her as a mother of two under the recent expansion of the child tax credit.
In 2021, as a result of the American Rescue Plan’s Child Tax Credit, families will be allowed to claim a $3,000 tax exemption per child, up from the $2,000 allowed in previous years. And for kids under 6, the exemption has moved to $3,600.
Adapted from Chapter One, “Wounds”
For several decades Southern black folks carrying suitcases full of prized possessions fled poverty and threats of lynching to pursue the elusive dream of a better life in Northern cities like Boston. By the early 1960s, turbulence and race uprisings plagued much of the country yet bypassed Boston. The city had a self-congratulatory air because its predominantly African American community of Roxbury exercised restraint while other cities burned. Everything changed that humid day in June.
I was seven years old at the time. That night in my aunt and uncle’s apartment, I watched the nightly news report bearing witness to mothers treated like chattel and an agitated crowd cursing and hurling rocks at the police. The reporter said the violence would likely carry on throughout the night. As we watched in stunned silence, suddenly we heard someone pounding on the front door. I hid nearby but within earshot, as my uncle barked “Who is it?” He un
I took a DNA test for fun and made a shocking discovery
She thought it would be interesting to explore her genetic heritage, but the result plunged her world into chaos
I grew up an only child in a happy, ordinary home. I knew my parents had tried for four years to have me, but I certainly never questioned where I came from. In the mirror, I saw a face like Mum’s, with height and eye colour that came from Dad.
Growing up, I didn’t know much about my dad’s side of the family. Both my parent’s families were Jewish immigrants – my mum’s from Germany and the Netherlands, and my dad’s from Spain – but Mum clammed up whenever we talked about family history. I didn’t think too much of it, assuming that she wasn’t comfortable digging into the past because of how Jewish people suffered in the war.