Broadcast journalist and NBLA board member Elliott Lewis combines his professional expertise as a news reporter with his black-white family history and racial identity as a biracial person to look at the state of biracial identity in America. "Fade to Black includes the accounting of his intimate, firsthand experiences as a mixed race child growing up in the 1960s and 70s, his family's generations-old history as biracial people, the larger cultural and political history of biracial identity and politics in the United States, as well as in-depth discussions on affirmative action, trans-racial adoption, sex and race, biracial families, "black versus biracial," and building a biracial movement.