MoAD Celebrates with ‘Hands on the Freedom Plow’ Author, ‘Freedom Riders’ Screening, Jazz, Free Family Offerings SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 2011...
Read moreGenealogy Fair in its 11th year at MSU Libraries
The 11th annual Regional Genealogical Fair has been scheduled June 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Mississippi State’s Mitchell Memorial Library. Sessions featuring...
Read moreWhen kin of slaves and owner meet
Betty Kilby was gripped with apprehension. Descendants of the white family that enslaved her kin were coming to dinner. She scrolled through a mental Rolodex of...
Read moreAlexandria cemetery research links families
Charlene Napper knew she had family in the Contrabands and Freedmen’s Cemetery in Alexandria, but she didn’t know to what degree. Her mother knew her...
Read moreIn search of the meaning of ‘Mozingo’
A slave house remains virtually intact at Locust Grove, a 348-year-old plantation in Walkerton, Va. My parents always said they thought “Mozingo” was...
Read moreHenry Louis Gates Jr. Partners with Archives to Expand Resources for African Family History
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Archives.com, a website devoted to making family history simple and affordable, announced today that Harvard...
Read moreAfrican Ancestry Conducts Seminar at African American Cultural Forum in Hampton, Virginia Saturday, June 26
(Vocus/PRWEB ) May 5, 2010 — On Saturday, June 26, the African American Cultural Forum, a brand new event taking place in downtown Hampton coinciding with the...
Read moreWas first black priest black enough?
More than a year after some African-Americans scrutinized the blackness of the nation’s first black president, America’s Catholics are now wrestling with...
Read moreGenealogy Website Shines New Light on African-American Ties to Liberia
Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 1, 2010 — The stories of 15,000+ African-Americans who emigrated to Liberia between 1820 and 1904 are now only a mouse click away...
Read moreResource offers genealogy assistance, especially in researching black families
Family reunions always left Joe Kennedy with questions. The Shadyside resident took his boyhood curiosities a step further by starting a nonprofit that seeks to fill...
Read moreDigital Archive Provides Access to Historic Atlanta Newspapers
A new digital database providing online access to 14 newspaper titles published in Atlanta from 1847 to 1922 is now available through the Digital Library of Georgia...
Read moreTombstones at predominantly African-American cemetery in Friendsville, Tennessee, vandalized, used for target practice
Community members are rallying around a historic cemetery in Blount County, after it was learned vandals were desecrating tombstones and using them for target...
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