They met by chance at a cemetery behind a church in Elizabeth. One, a Black woman, was the church pastor seeking to preserve the legacy of enslaved ancestors. The other, a white woman, was searching ...
NORFOLK, Va. — More and more African Americans are chiseling their way through the infamous 1870 "brick wall" and digging up their ancestral roots. Today, at least 19 states have chapters of the ...
The event occurred at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Carbondale. Attendees visited two gravesites. The first site held former African Americans who suffered from smallpox after traveling to Carbondale to ...
NORFOLK, Va. — There's a name that means power to Dunnsville, Virginia man Ronnie Sidney II: Lewis Corbin. Corbin was Sidney's third great-grandfather. He escaped slavery from the Bellevue Plantation ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Have you ever wondered about where you come from? Or the history of your ancestors? In honor of Black History Month, one organization is helping African Americans learn more ...
Orchard Park, N.Y. (WHAM) — Tens of thousands of fans visited Highmark Stadium for the venue's likely final game on Sunday. Rochester police searching for suspect after standoff on city's ...
*Growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, Keith Lester remembers attending schools in New Jersey, where Caucasian classmates always had definitive answers to where their families were from. Lester recalls ...
Researcher Angela Walton-Raji has been studying African-Native genealogy for over 20 years. The Comanche family pictured here is from the early 1900s. Courtesy Sam DeVenney Angela Walton-Raji has been ...
CARBONDALE — To kickstart a week of Juneteenth festivities, the African American Museum of Southern Illinois honored the freed slaves buried in Woodlawn Cemetery with prayer, song and spoken word.
The event will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27, at the African American Museum of Iowa, 55 12th Ave. SE, Cedar ...
The weeklong celebration of Kwanzaa is a perfect opportunity to revisit soothing, hearty winter foods, says celebrity chef ...
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