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 ...

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

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

Our list of top things to do this weekend includes the County Fair, a Greek festival, Juneteenth events and more ...

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

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

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

Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. Here's how to celebrate in Phoenix, Tempe, Chandler and Goodyear.