ADOPTED BLACK WOMAN TRACES ROOTS, FINDS OUT SHE’S AFRICAN ROYALTY
A Black woman who was adopted in the United States found out she’s royalty in Africa while searching for her biological parents.
Princess Sarah Culberson, born in April 1976, is the biological daughter of an African man and a white American woman. She was placed in foster care as an infant before she was adopted by Jim and Judy Culberson — a white family living in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Culberson grew up in a white family and found out later she was African royalty (Photo Sarah Culberson)Culberson had no idea she was a princess of the Mende tribe of Bumpe, Sierra Leone, until she was 28 and had a conversion with a friend that inspired her to look deeper into her identity.
“My friend said, ‘Where are you holding back in your life?,’” she told Insider. “I said, ‘I’m terrified to find my birth father.”
Culberson’s adoptive family surrounded her with unconditional love, she said, but she still had questions about who she was. She began searching for her birth mother at 21 but learned she died of cancer 10 years earlier. Her birth father’s identity remained unclear.
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