My project, Losing Laroche: The Story of the Titanic’s Only Black Passenger, is the first in-depth study of the only black family on-board the RMS Titanic. The story of the Haitian Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, his French wife Juliette Lafargue, and their descendants is largely unknown and troubles the assumption of an all-white Titanic narrative held in the United States. I recount Laroche’s life story in order to probe the ways in which African-Americans make sense of their lived existence during what historian Rayford Logan called “the Nadir” of U.S. race relations. For many African Americans, the Titanic represented the ultimate symbol of white hubris. Indeed, in black memory and literature, the Titanic became a vehicle of jokes, roasts, and legends surrounding a possible black passenger. In Losing Laroche, I demonstrate how Laroche allows us to better understand the possibilities of black advancement in the Titanic moment and throughout the Diaspora. Simultaneously, Laroche also demonstrates the limitations of black advancement in an anti-black world. Losing Laroche is a compelling story that largely explains why many black people are always in a constant state of leaving home, in search of home.