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December 17, 2018 10 0

An 1848 Christmas Story: The Gift of Freedom

This is a guest post by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, digital reference specialist in the Library’s Research and Reference Services Division. December is a month of...

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July 19, 2018 0 0

Historic Black burial site under playground to get memorial

For generations, children would play kickball, hide-and-seek and jump rope on a stretch of concrete at Weccacoe Playground, unaware the remains of 5,000 Black...

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July 19, 2018 0 0

How To “Find Your Roots” Like Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How do you find the right direction in your life and understand who you truly are? On PBS’s Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates Jr. allows celebrities like Scarlett...

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July 19, 2018 0 0

My Job at the Library: Researching African-American Genealogy

Ahmed Johnson is a local history and genealogy reference librarian in the Library’s Main Reading Room and a specialist in African-American history. A...

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June 29, 2018 0 0

Pic of the Week: Mandela Grandson Shares Lessons He Learned from His Grandfather

Ndaba Mandela, the grandson of South African leader and humanitarian Nelson Mandela, spoke in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress on June 27 with...

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April 11, 2018 0 0

Inquiring Minds: Uncovering the Many Meanings of Slave Narratives

Carley Reinhard first encountered stories of slave capture in early 2017 in Professor Stephanie Shaw’s African-American history course at Ohio State University...

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April 5, 2018 0 0

An English City Grapples With The Slave-Trading Past Of Its Most Celebrated Figure

A statue of a merchant from the 17th century towers over the main square in Bristol, in southwest England. It’s a tribute to Edward Colston, described on a...

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March 27, 2018 0 0

Nigerian man connects with African American and Caribbean cousins through AncestryDNA

As a young boy of 6 or 7, Ade and his older brother normally visited with their grandmother Alice after school until their parents returned from work. On one...

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March 18, 2018 0 0

How the African-American Syphax Family Traces Its Lineage to Martha Washington

When Stephen Hammond was growing up, he scoffed when relatives told him he was related to the family of the nation’s first president, George Washington. It turns out...

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March 16, 2018 0 0

Tracing Your Roots: My Adopted Black Daughter Wants to Know Her Origins

I have worked very hard to trace back the ancestry of my adopted daughter Rasa Braswell, who is African American. (I am Caucasian.) However, I hit a snag once I got...

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March 12, 2018 0 0

Why DNA Ancestry Tests Are Struggling to Avoid White Bias

DNA ancestry tests, which help people find long-lost relatives and build family trees, have risen dramatically in popularity within the last several years. With...

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March 11, 2018 0 0

The Strange Evolution of Henry Louis Gates’s Estimate of Alex Haley and “Roots”

In 1998, Dr. Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr., a University Professor and Director of Harvard’s Center for African and African American Research, explained in the...

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