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 ...

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 ...

The woman then posted multiple videos explaining why she did not believe the Black man lived there ... you just have to understand my point-of-view…” When confronted about why she did not ...

Young Virgin Islanders will soon have access to free ancestor research tools ... The launch coincides with Black History Month in February and Virgin Islands History Month in March. Education ...