For many African-Americans, family history can be difficult — in some cases nearly impossible — to trace. Now, new technology allows people of African...
Read moreNationwide Insurance Launches Family Heritage Campaign to Support Black History Month
In recognition of Black History Month, today Nationwide Insurance is providing African American families with a unique online experience that helps them connect with...
Read moreBlack Livseys With White Roots
In Snellville, Ga., a city about 25 miles east of Atlanta racial strives are being made by a prominent family mending their historic roots. White and Black Livseys...
Read moreAfricatown project locates graves of ex-slaves who survived 1859 shipwreck
A Virginia archaeologist is using modern technology to locate and mark gravesites in the older half of Old Plateau Cemetery. The cemetery is at Bay Bridge Road and...
Read moreDecatur genealogy museum traces African-American roots
Evelyn Hood of Decatur began researching her family history some years ago, realizing how hard it is for African-Americans because landowners usually did not include...
Read moreWitherspoon-Jackson Genealogy Group Looks Forward to Filling in the Gaps
“We know all about Betsy Stockton,” observed Princeton Public Library’s Terri Nelson recently, speaking of the Princeton slave who become the first female missionary...
Read morePBS Explores African-American Contributions to History and Society
An Impressive Array of New and Encore Programming Before and During Black History Month ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Throughout the year...
Read moreThe Resting Tree: An ancient tree shades slave cemetery
They say an old slave called Uncle Rube resembled Moses as he carried a tiny boy’s lifeless body to his favorite tree, where an open grave waited. It was March 1798...
Read moreBlack Genealogy: Self-Liberator and Therauputic Tool
Genealogy lecture from Elaine Pinderhughes, Professor Emerita and former chair of the clinical sequence at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.
Read moreClarifying African, African-American Ancestry
People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of...
Read moreArchaeologists dig Westampton
After what was deemed a successful dig in October, archaeologists will resume their task of unearthing a freed slave settlement called Timbuctoo. David Orr, a...
Read moreRace against time
Eugene Frazier and Thomas Johnson surveyed a forest of graves at a hidden cemetery on James Island where they said more than 200 people are laid to rest. Most of the...
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