Other valid forms of ancestral and historical documentation of one’s family lines and ancestry include federal land and ...

Our slave ancestors taught us to never give up,” declared historian and community elder Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati, whose words captured a profound moment of resilience in a recent conversation on ...

The G.I. Bill, which provided life-changing education and housing benefits to millions of World War II veterans, excluded ...

Researching her family history, Cheryl Wills found she was related to a former slave who served in the Civil War with the ...

Building altars dedicated to ancestors is essential to honoring ... truly in Black American spirituality or African spirituality, it is not really a death that happens. It is just a transition.

Patricia Kilby-Robb, a retired educator, gives a tour of the James Wilson Kilby African American Museum on Shenandoah Shores ...

NIH study highlights potential for earlier health interventions in individuals of West African ancestry. Researchers from the ...

It was a simple request. When I asked Annie Polland, director of the Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side, whether I could bring my undergraduate NYU journalism class to learn about the ...

# Fruits (botanically speaking) that we enjoy today that were domesticated in Africa are tamarind, ackee, watermelon, muskmelon and okra. Sorrel or roselle is another particularly beautiful, edible ...

The Brattleboro chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) presented a 20-year ...

Award-winning author and filmmaker Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Junior spoke at Youngstown’s Stambaugh Auditorium Concert Hall ...

Curated by Starasea Nidiala Camara, Mia’s newest exhibition, “In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art,” will be open and free to view until December 2021. The ...