History has a way of sneaking up on a family, changing how its members see their place in the world. Sometimes it’s a skeleton that bursts out of the closet...
Read moreAbolition Day To Be Commemorated At Key West Florida’s 1860 African Burial Ground
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition is to be commemorated at an oceanfront Key West site believed to be the only African...
Read moreWhat freedom brings
The walls of Erwin Polk’s study are lined with old photographs of men and women who lived over the years of the past two centuries. They track a family whose...
Read moreStarstruck Clare residents scramble to find ties to Muhammed Ali
An Irish heritage center in County Clare is being flooded with phone calls from Ennis residents looking to establish ancestral ties with American boxing great...
Read moreHistoric Stagville in Durham helps family genealogists trace African American roots
The Family Tree project at Historic Stagville, located in Durham County, NC, may be a valuable resource for family genealogists tracing their African American roots...
Read moreBradley Academy to begin recording African-American cemeteries
The Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center in Murfreesboro is starting a new project to record all of the African American cemeteries in Rutherford County. “This...
Read moreNed Broadus remembers slave life in Falls County
Ned Broadus left for future generations his stories of slavery on the Churchill Jones plantation in Falls County. He provides insight into the lives of Central Texas...
Read moreWoodruff brothers learn more about their family history
The journey started about two years ago with a request from another brother’s daughter to obtain a death certificate. Every discovery led to a question. It was...
Read moreGenetic tests in regulatory ‘no-man’s land’
Safeguards are not be keeping pace with the pace of genetic testing technology, a Stanford University bioethicist warns. In an interview for the Stanford School of...
Read moreTracing Slave Ancestry Just Got Easier
Host Liane Hansen speaks with George Tyson, president of the Virgin Islands Social History Association, about a comprehensive collection of records from the Caribbean...
Read moreHistory and faith: Tracing the first black family in America
For 30 years Thelma Williams has spent more time with Anthony and Isabella and their child, William, than she has with many of her living relatives. She sneaks out to...
Read moreNyack professor uncovers history of ex-slave’s success
When she died in 1879, Cynthia Hesdra – a black ex-slave – was worth an estimated $2 million in today’s dollars, making her one of the wealthiest...
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