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Three well-known African Americans will have their family histories explored on this week’s episode of Finding Your…
All of my grandparents emigrated from St. Kitts. Records of my paternal grandparents are available on the Ellis…
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Cornel West is back.
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Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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I am trying to determine where Willie Wise Hargrove, the wife of my great-granduncle, died and is buried.
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On Tuesday's episode of the PBS series Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Benjamin Jealous, former…
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Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Haiti’s former dictator, is to be buried Saturday in the nation’s capital,…
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I am doing my husband’s genealogy. His grandmother was born Ethel (Etherea) Chantilla Pounder on March 23, 1898, in…
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How history is told often depends on who tells it first, which also means it is their version of history. When it…
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive…
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Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive…
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Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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Well, fiddledeedee, as Scarlett O’Hara might exclaim: Gone With the Wind, the epic film of love and war set against…
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