It started with a hunch but had turned into something else. Traci Wilson-Kleekamp knew that the answers lay in the census records she’d been looking over. The papers had been by her side for the past three weeks — the car, work, her bedroom, the bathroom. There was something she was missing.

But as she tried to sleep one night, two details jumped out at her. An ancestor, Clory Mundy, had two biracial daughters whose last names were Overton.
And there was a white man named Dudley W. Overton living next door to Mundy.

Cherokee Nation News Release

TULSA-The Cherokee Nation and leaders from Tulsa's African-American community have announced a joint outreach program to provide genealogy research to anyone who believes they are eligible for Cherokee citizenship. The outreach program is open to individuals of all races and nationalities who believe they have Cherokee ancestry, and wish to apply for citizenship in the Cherokee Nation.

Bahamian Black Seminoles or Wild Indians of Andros Island: By either name, they are a seldom-read chapter in American history. This group of 150-200 Africans and mixed-blood African-Seminoles fled Florida in the early 19th century and established a settlement called Red Bays on the northwest coast of Andros, where their descendants live.

Friends of Negro Spirituals and the Greater Bay Area will celebrate Negro Spirituals Heritage Day on Sunday, June 22, 2008, 3:30 PM -5:30 PM, at the West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, Oakland, CA. Doors will open at 3:00 PM.

The Butler Farm, founded by emancipated slaves from Rutherford County, Tennessee, has been in the same family for over 100 years, earning it the designation as Century Farm. The Tennessee Century Farms Program was created in the 1970s by the
Tennessee Department of Agriculture as part of the nation’s