Teachers never mentioned Blacks, Negroes or anything the entire time I was in school,” he said. “Why, for a time, I thought ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the ...

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr ...

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

She signed up for a genealogy workshop, hoping to better understand her background, and her health. What she found out was ...

KHOU 11’s new documentary explores the evolution and resilience of Black family life, from Africa to emancipation and beyond.

It is often through art that Barrett’s family reckons with and embraces the part of its identity tied to race. Kennedy’s ...

Certainly, the fans of “Finding Your Roots,” the PBS show I have hosted for 13 years, wanted to know. My inbox was flooded with emails asking us to trace the new pope’s ancestry.

But above all, it was found through the extension of work carried out by genealogist Jari C. Honora, that the leader of the ...

Archaeologists in Virginia have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported the nation’s oldest ...

While many edible plants last a single season, or a few years at the most, these trees will keep providing fruit to your family for 100 years or more.