As Maya Angelou said in her poem “The Human Family,” “we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” Yet history shows a complex set of challenges that have been directed at Black families. In honor of the National Black History Month theme from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, we discuss who represents the Black family, how do we identify its members, and how diverse it is. These sessions explore the ideas of African scholar, Cheikh Anta Diop who describe “race” as it is commonly examined as a false scientific concept that is really best studied as Cultural Identity. The major factors of Cultural Identity are historic, linguistic, and psychological. As Diop says, our challenge is to overcome the ideas of cultural aggression.