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December 6, 2012 559 0

Forgotten graves at University of Virginia likely belonged to black slaves

A piece of black colonial history may have been unearthed after a hidden grave site was discovered adjacent to the University of Virginia campus. Sixty-seven unmarked...

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November 21, 2012 512 0

University of Kansas showcases historic black photography online

The Leon K. Hughes Photograph Collection is a chronicle of African American family and community life in Wichita, Kansas from the late 1940s through the 1970s...

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October 7, 2012 496 0

Historic slave cemetery artifacts returned to James City

When Ben A. Watford and Earl Mills recently went to Eastern Carolina University to get duplicates of some artifacts from a slave cemetery in James City, they got much...

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September 30, 2012 623 0

Asheville’s Sasha Mitchell helps families find their roots

Sasha Mitchell was a fourth-grader in New Jersey when her class did a family history project and she innocently contributed photos of her white mother and...

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September 28, 2012 621 0

African American history buried in unusual places

Katie Brown Bennett was whirling through reel after reel of microfilm when she found her great-great-grandfather Squire Cheshier. It was not a birth certificate that...

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September 28, 2012 543 0

Passion drives effort to preserve history, search for roots

Candice McKnight all but moves mountains to help people find their roots. But it was on an imposing rock set down in a stranger’s yard in Missouri that she looked her...

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September 8, 2012 502 0

When Family Trees Are Gnarled by Race

My paternal grandfather, Marshall Staples (1898-1969), was one of the millions of black Southerners who moved north in the Great Migration. Those of us in the family...

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August 3, 2012 487 0

Researchers to reveal lost African-American historical record

The experiences of African-Americans in the Las Vegas area during its segregationist past have generally been portrayed in depictions of iconic showroom entertainers...

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July 21, 2012 505 0

Relatives come from across nation to pay respects at black cemetery

In a once-forgotten cemetery, surrounded by family, both living and dead, 91-year-old Leon Lewis spoke of his heritage. “This is the starting place of my ancestors,”...

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June 9, 2012 483 0

Library makes available ‘African American Newspapers, 1827-1998’

The University of Delaware Library announces the online access to a much acclaimed new database, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, which will provide online...

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May 26, 2012 506 0

Sketching The Family Tree, Discovering His Family’s History

Lawrence Jackson went through most of his life not knowing much about his family history. He didn’t even know the names of his great-grandparents. That...

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May 25, 2012 491 0

Atlanta Man Plans Memorial Day Reunion With African Kin

It may sound strange, but for William Holland, 43, of Atlanta, incorporating the long-lost African members of his family into this year’s family reunion is a reality...

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