Craig Melvin is hosting those “uncomfortable conversations about race” in his own household. In a three-part special shared to social media, the “Today” show anchor revealed his wife, Lindsay Czarniak, and his mother, Betty Jo Melvin, sat down together to learn about the Melvin roots.
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Betty Jo and Czarniak had an “uncomfortable” convo about growing up in South Carolina the 1960s, raising black sons and what it was like to learn that her son was dating a white woman. “He had to tell me that you were white,” Betty Jo said to Czarniak in the clip.