Dr. Carolyn Carter, a historian and genealogist, discussed the challenges and importance of tracing African American family ...

In a year which has proven particularly challenging for diversity-focused nonprofits, the Evansville African American Museum ...

For Juneteenth, here's our growing database of African American burial grounds in New Jersey — and what they mean to us today ...

Lara Downes sits down with the brilliant jazz harpist to discuss the power of female lineage in the worlds of jazz and ...

But the "full family tree of Thompson is not well-researched." The free Blacks who settled the Alpine neighborhood in the mid-1800s built the first African American church in Bergen County.

Hundreds gathered to kick off the Juneteenth block party and celebrations at the African American Museum in Philadelphia ...

Paterson resident David Benjamin wanted to know more about his African American ancestors who once lived across North Jersey. After doing some research, he found that some were buried in what's ...

North Jersey residents continue to uncover information about African American burial grounds, prominent and hidden, in the area. Junteenth, observed on June 19, commemorates the ending of slavery ...