Hellena Dior is transparent as she shares her experiences in the personal narrative, No Longer Sharecropping Shame. She invites readers along as she recounts her journey navigating through a family that willingly accepted the harvest of shame they inherited from generations before. Hellena Dior decides against the family pattern and desires not to plant the same seed in the family plot of tainted soil. An enthralling story that is immersed in shared pain, trauma, and faulty coping attempts to change her family’s trajectory for future generations. No Longer Sharecropping Shame is a narrative that takes you on a journey through time with an African American family.