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The Secret Room | True Stories

I'm Black?! Part 2

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Armed with nothing more than a name and an old family photo, Lexie goes on the hunt to find her biological father.  And when she finds him she realizes she has a secret she can't share with him.  It's a complicated story of family, secrets and broken trust.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, Ben. It's Lexi. And last time I told you how the people who raised me kept a big secret from me.

0:09.0

I'm Black. I'm back to tell you the revelations I learned when I set out to find my biological father. I know people have questions. Let's talk.

0:18.0

Hey everyone, it's Ben. Welcome to the secret room and the conclusion of Lexi's Secret in I'm Black, Part 2.

0:25.2

Today, armed with nothing more than a name in an old family photo, Lexi goes on the hunt to find her biological father.

0:32.2

But when she finds him, she realizes that she's the one with the secret, and she's scared if she confesses it could shatter their fledgling relationship.

0:40.3

We'll pick up with Lexi just after her grandparents and mom have confirmed that the man that she thought was her father was not.

0:48.0

I went into Hyperdrive.

0:50.5

And I guess now you probably want to find your biodadad.

0:54.1

I was ready for the hunt.

0:58.4

You've got his name.

1:00.1

Yep.

1:00.8

You know maybe where he lives in the region anyway?

1:05.2

Yep.

1:05.7

So I have his name.

1:07.1

I know at least where he lived in the 90s, which is a start.

1:10.3

Yeah.

1:11.4

And that's, you know, my friends joke, even to this very day that I probably could have been a

1:18.6

PI or I should have been a PI because, you know, they'll go on dates with guys on Tinder.

1:23.9

They'll give me the first name and the college they went to and I'll find them.

1:26.9

You know, I'll do these deep dives on these guys. So kind of did the same thing to a biological

1:33.7

father. I stayed up all night searching. So I did use that name. I used the state that I knew

1:41.8

he lived in when it was, you know, in the 90s. You know, I was

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