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Barrington man found out he was black when his mom gave him up

March 01, 2012

Born into an all-white family, Mark Cannon found out his real racial roots when his mother drove him to a parking lot and gave him away to the black father he had never met. Raised as a black child, the Barrington businessman says he now understands how that could have happened. "I know from where I came. ... I'm comfortable in my skin," Cannon says.

Source: http://dailyherald.com/article/20120301/news/703019964/
 
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