Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Thanks to ancestry kits, two families in California learned they have a distant ancestor whose identity has never been found.

Through his nonprofit organization, the Alex Breanne Corporation, John Mills helped 50 people build their family tree that ...

In "From These Roots," the author chronicles a legal and personal journey to restore dignity to her enslaved relative.

The incident happened months after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes. That murder led to protests against ...

In 2017, I sent DNA samples to Ancestry, as well as to two other DNA companies. My parents had recently passed away, and I had some questions about my family background that I hoped the DNA might ...

“This method opens up exciting possibilities for understanding human evolution, and it has the potential to answer crucial questions, for example, when did our ancestors begin to incorporate ...

Imani Perry teaches at Harvard and is the author of “South to America,” a genre-mixing exploration of the American South, and, most recently, “Black ... history of her ancestors in North ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Watch Bailey perform her song Cobalt Blue by the sea. Bailey talks about living in St Ives and becoming a musician. What is the meaning of the ...

You also have to prove that one of your grandparents was born in the UK, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man. An ancestry visa costs £637 and requires an application with extensive documentation.

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around ... This skull is a replica of the Robust Ape Man, discovered in 1938 in South Africa. It has been debated whether this skull belonged ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how they are formed and where they were born. You can tell a lot about a human being's ancestry from their general characteristics. A child can have ...