Jessica Faith Pearson

First came love, then came you 🩵

clouds may gather, but the glow stays strong✨ #newheadshots @nbcwashington

For those who asked or wondered how our moms (and dads 😅) responded to the news that we’re finally making them grandparents, here’s some #MothersDay joy for your timelines… We told Renaldo’s mom that we needed her and dad to sign his updated life insurance policy 😉. When she saw that it was not a pen ✍🏽 she was using, his dad was concerned she was going to knock down the chandelier 😅. We told Jessica’s mom, dad, and grandmother on the count of 3 during the Thanksgiving family photo 😅. Suffice it to say that many tears and even more laughter ensued…

Are you more salty chips or fruity pebbles? We asked our NEWS4 moms and moms-to-be (Jummy, Lauryn & Jessica) about their pregnancy cravings - and their answers did NOT disappoint 😂! Be honest… and let us know which foods you CRAVED when you were pregnant? 🧀🍟🥓🍪🧁🫒🍩 We’re Celebrating Moms all month on NBC Washington 💐

Highs come late. Lows come early. ☀️🌙

…and May will give us 8 PM sunsets in DC! #May #Spring #Moon #DC #DMV

Celebrating Earth and the incredible weather that makes our planet so unique 🌎 #EarthDay

This time last year 🌸. One year later, well…let’s just say “HE IS RISEN!” 😅👶🏾

Heads up, DMV! ⚠️ We are WEATHER ALERT for Monday for the potential for severe thunderstorms. Damaging winds, heavy rain, hail and tornadoes are possible. Timing looks to be afternoon into evening. Stay weather aware! ⛈️🌪️

This is your sign that winter is loosening its grip! ☀️

Spending Galentine’s Day with my two fav ladies 🫶🏽 @constantincrease @swindlerella #galentinesday #besties #girlfriends

As we stand at the intersection of ancestry & legacy, “[we] come as [two], but stand as ten[s] [of] thousand[s].” Literally… From 1619 to today is just over 400 years. Using a realistic historical generation length (25–30 years), that equals approximately: 14–16 generations, which means roughly 16,000–65,000 (or, more realistically, 10,000–25,000) ancestor positions for just one of us across that time span. The mathematical and scientifically recognized “doubling rule” in genealogy says that each generation doubles as you move backward: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents 16 second great-grandparents 32 third great-grandparents 64 fourth great-grandparents 128 fifth great-grandparents 256 sixth great-grandparents 512 seventh great-grandparents 1,024 eighth great-grandparents 2,048 ninth great-grandparents 4,096 tenth great-grandparents 8,192 eleventh great-grandparents 16,384 twelfth great-grandparents (Gen 14) 32,768 thirteenth great-grandparents 65,536 fourteenth great-grandparents (Gen 16) However, by 14–16 generations back, our theoretical ancestor count begins to approach or exceed the total historical population size (only about 25,000 enslaved Africans were in the English colonies in 1700), which forces extensive overlap in family lines (called pedigree collapse) making the realistic number of distinct ancestors closer to 10,000–25,000 rather than the much larger exponential figures. Nevertheless, for us to exist today: African men and women survived the Middle Passage; Families endured enslavement; Communities rebuilt during Reconstruction; Generations navigated the horrors of lynch mobs, Jim Crow segregation, and the Civil Rights Struggle; Families migrated during the Great Migration; Ancestors pressed forward through exclusion, struggle, faith, resistance, triumph, and hope. Our lives are not the product of one or two stories, but the convergence of thousands. Thousands of lives, sacrifices, decisions, and survivals across approximately four centuries in America. Mathematically improbable, but historically rooted. #BabyBoyLoading 👶🏾 #ValentinesDay 🖤#BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏾 📷 @gh.visuals__