Cherokee Nation News Release TULSA-The Cherokee Nation and leaders from Tulsa’s African-American community have announced a joint outreach program to provide...
Read moreBlack Seminoles found safety on Andros
Bahamian Black Seminoles or Wild Indians of Andros Island: By either name, they are a seldom-read chapter in American history. This group of 150-200 Africans and...
Read more5th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day
Friends of Negro Spirituals and the Greater Bay Area will celebrate Negro Spirituals Heritage Day on Sunday, June 22, 2008, 3:30 PM -5:30 PM, at the West Oakland...
Read moreThe Butler Farm in Rutherford County, Tennessee designated as Century Farm
The Butler Farm, founded by emancipated slaves from Rutherford County, Tennessee, has been in the same family for over 100 years, earning it the designation as...
Read more“Traces of the Trade” Opens P.O.V.’s 2008 Season
P.O.V.’s Season 21 opens Tuesday, June 24, 2008 with a unique and disturbing journey of discovery into the history and “living consequences” of one of the nation’s...
Read moreAmerican Legacy Magazine Launches Family Reunion Registry
American Legacy, the premier magazine of African-American history and culture, announced today the launch of its "Family Reunion Registry." Register your...
Read moreA legacy left unmarked for black Civil War vets
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – For more than a century, the bodies of some 300 black soldiers who died in the Civil War have lain in unmarked graves on the bank of...
Read moreAvid Genealogy Buff Became Webmaster
PORT NECHES, TX (PRWEB) June 20, 2005 — Bill Cribbs wasn’t always interested in his family history. Not until he met a tall, burly man with his same last...
Read moreAbout 200 are believed buried in old African-American graveyard in Mansfield
Michael Evans stooped over and scratched into the earth as though preparing a future garden instead of tending to the past.Ripping up weeds and sweeping aside sod...
Read moreRecords help re-root family trees
Comedian Whoopi Goldberg once joked about friends who can trace their ancestors back to 15th century France and England’s Tudor monarchs. She said she can trace...
Read moreBreaking Down ‘Wall Of Slavery’
Maddy McCoy’s passion for genealogical connections has some extremely personal roots. The Fairfax City resident, who is compiling a Slavery Inventory Database for...
Read moreMcWorter memorialized at presidential library
A life-size bronze bust of a former slave who founded a west-central Illinois town was donated by his descendants Thursday to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential...
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