The moderator was Melissa Morgan, a Sankofa Parent Village mother and President Morgan-Barnes’s Mom. She helped guide the conversation and offered attendees the chance to participate in the discussion. “When we talk about melanin, we don’t really talk a lot about its biological effects,” Morgan said, “because instead, in this country, in particular, we’re socialized to talk about race and color through a social lens and spectrum, really based on our history of racism and prejudice.”