At 28 years old, David A. Wilson looked around his hometown at the rough streets of Newark, N.J. and questioned what he saw – black people living day in and day...
Read moreAncestry.ca Celebrates Canada’s Black History With Largest Collection of Online Records
TORONTO, Feb. 5 – Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading online family history website, celebrates Black History Month with an unprecedented array of online...
Read moreThe National Archives and Footnote.com Launch Online African American History Collection
LINDON, Utah – (Business Wire) In celebration of Black History Month, Footnote.com is launching its African American Collection. Footnote.com has been working...
Read moreThe mixed blood of Indians explained
Today, eight out of ten Native Americans are of mixed blood as a result of slavery and post-slavery intermarriage, particularly in New England. Further, the infamous...
Read moreStory of Newport family begins nearly 200 years ago in Wayne County
About 1812, when Great Britain went to war for the second time with the United States, farmer William Newport left his home in Connecticut and settled in Sodus Point...
Read more‘In memory of Nancy, a colored woman’
There is no last name on Nancy’s grave. The tombstone is half the height of those surrounding it. But it is there – the grave of a former slave buried...
Read more‘Family Tree’ exhibit traces Cape May’s earliest black families
Southern Cape May County was once a haven for fugitive slaves, freed slaves and free-born blacks who came here for the same reason as white settlers: They wanted a...
Read moreGenealogyBank.com Reports Addition of 170 Historical Newspapers
Naples, FL (PRWEB) January 15, 2009 — GenealogyBank.com, the leading provider of digitized historical and recent newspapers for family history research...
Read moreSlave History of Charleston
The old slave quarters of the Aiken family reveal many stories of slave life and culture in Charleston in the 19th century. Ironworking and the ability to cultivate...
Read moreThe Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise Photography Exhibition Opens at the Smithsonian Jan. 30
“The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise,” a collaboration between the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the...
Read morePBS Celebrates Black History Month With an Extensive Lineup of Special Programming
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — From history to performing arts to independent film, PBS offers viewers the opportunity to explore the rich and...
Read moreHistoric black towns spotlighted in Lawton
The realty sign touted Taft as an Oklahoma town to call home “amid healthy, happy and prosperous surroundings.” For some black families yearning to escape the...
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