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

Community members are invited to explore their family history at an African American Genealogy Workshop on Tuesday, June 17, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at New Albany Central Library, ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...

Peter Oliver was an enslaved man in the late 1700s who lived and worked in Salem as a Moravian Single Brother. He gained his ...

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...

WBTV spoke with a concerned citizen and historian, John Massey, who has been working to get local leaders to work on keeping ...

The Met's $70 million Michael C. Rockefeller Wing opens with funding from Per Skarstedt, Adam Lindemann, and George Economou.

If you ever wondered what secrets lies deep within Kirsten Archives, you’re not alone. This article gonna dive headfirst into the mysterious world of Kirsten ...

From 1830 to 1860, the Manchester Docks - or Ancarrow's Landing - was a major port in the massive slave trade that made Richmond the largest source of enslaved Africans ...