Votaw Colony Museum, Inc. announces Reconnection IV Conference which highlights the history and heritage of African American settlements in Kansas. This years event...
Read more70% African, 30% European: Who am I now?
I have spent a lot of time over the past few days ruminating on racial identity. My thoughts were sparked by a confluence of events: Last week, PBS aired the final...
Read moreGift preserves rare history
Frank W. Davis Sr. was an ordinary man. He ran a business, raised a family and was dedicated to his church and his Masonic lodge, said his granddaughter, Josie Davis...
Read moreAn Ancestry of African-Native Americans
Angela Walton-Raji has been researching African-Native American genealogy for nearly 20 years and is the author of the book Black Indian Genealogy Research...
Read morePardons pushed for Kentuckians convicted of helping slaves escape
The Rev. Calvin Fairbank spent 17 years in a Kentucky prison — suffering beatings and brutal labor — for committing the felony of helping slaves escape to freedom...
Read moreFreedom papers reveal Berks’ past
Sixty years before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, John Teysher of Oley Township felt the spirit of independence and freed two slaves...
Read moreNational Archives Hosts 6th Genealogy Fair, April 14-15, 2010
WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being issued by the National Archives: Free two-day genealogy fair to focus on “The World...
Read moreCarnival of African-American Genealogy
On March 19th Restore My Name – Slave Records and Genealogy Research, will kick-off the first of an ongoing series of African-American themed carnivals, intended to...
Read moreIconic stories of slavery and the South leave out many black family histories
One day late in the summer of 1956, when I was an undergraduate, I walked a few blocks to my grandmother’s house and sat my father’s mother down at her...
Read moreBound By The Past
When Michael Saahir and Anne McWilliams crossed paths over coffee between Sunday services at her Northside church, they easily could have passed from each...
Read moreResearcher discovers real name of famous Petersburg slave
PETERSBURG – One of the most fascinating characters in Petersburg’s African-American history is Isaac Jefferson, an ex-slave of former President Thomas...
Read moreFamily’s dilemma: Gas rights vs. black heritage
Denise Dennis’ ancestors were among the first farmers who settled in northeast Pennsylvania, in 1793. They were free African Americans, extraordinary because...
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