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, ...

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

in collaboration with American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy ... of African descent who were brought to the Americas. Perhaps the most salient feature of Robert Francis Prevost’s family ...

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

President Donald Trump issued an order to take down exhibits that "divide Americans based on race," but the White House says it wasn't involved and the museum says the moves were part of normal ...

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

SHARON, Pa. (WKBN) — The Sharon Historical Society hosted a workshop Sunday afternoon to help African Americans learn about their family history. The event was called Tracing Your Roots: An ...

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

New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday, ...

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