grandma, daddy knew, you were dying, but never told us. goodbye.
Read moreAbout My Father
My parents divorced when my brother and I were very young, probably 2 – 3 years old. My father, Julius Charity, remarried twice, producing seven more Charitys...
Read morePBS Celebrates Black History Month with More True Originals
An Intimate Look at Trailblazers in New and Encore Programming Before and During Black History Month 2011 ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...
Read moreBET and CENTRIC Celebrate Black History Month With a Lineup of Exciting Programming
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — This Black History Month BET and CENTRIC will pay tribute to the range and richness of the African American experience...
Read moreBlack History Month at The Museum of the African Diaspora
MoAD Celebrates with ‘Hands on the Freedom Plow’ Author, ‘Freedom Riders’ Screening, Jazz, Free Family Offerings SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 2011...
Read moreRecommitting
Two years ago I purchased a fancy microfilm reader. Here it is, sitting on a table in the back of my office: And here is the microfilm collection I planned to work...
Read moreSearch for roots leads one man to Cedar Grove
When Raymond Reddick began going through his grandmother’s attic after she passed away in 1985, he stopped to look through a box of pictures. Inside were photographs...
Read moreRemarkable Story of Slavery, Civil War, Forbidden Love, Implicit Relations, and the Decision That Forever Changed a Family in The Knight Family Legacy: One Family’s Story
Pembroke Pines, FL, August 13, 2010 –(PR.com)– Historical Biographer/ Autobiographer Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton today announced the release of The Knight...
Read moreNew Alex Haley museum lets visitors search their own roots
Author Alex Haley, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots: The Saga of an American Family sparked a surge of interest in genealogy in the 1970s, is the subject of a new...
Read moreGullah Geechee People, Maroons & Seminoles to Reunite in Florida August 19 -22
On Saturday, August 21, South Floridians will have the opportunity to experience an authentic Black culture that can be traced directly back to the enslavement of...
Read more‘Born’ genealogist finds ties here
Lisa Lee has traced her family lineage back to the early days of legal slavery in America. Her fascination with genealogy began in 1970 when, as a 14- year-old girl...
Read moreFoxx learns his African roots
For years, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx could trace his ancestors no further than a mid-19th century slave auction in Moore County. Until Thursday night. That’s...
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