Black New Yorkers are expressing fury over revelations that socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani misrepresented his racial identity in a college application, claiming he was "black or African ...

Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but ...

It is not blood alone that binds Black Americans to this soil. America, as we know it today, simply would not exist without ...

If you're Black and you’ve ever travelled, you know the feeling: the stares, the suspicion, the microaggressions. Sometimes it feels like you have to shrink yourself just to move freely. But what if ...

What began as the idea to create an instructional book on how to research family history morphed into telling the story of ...

Two of three undergraduate researchers studying the Burke Museum’s African collection stood beside seven floor-to-ceiling ...

Like many African Americans, my search was blocked by what’s referred to as the “1870’s wall.” That’s because prior to 1870, the United States Census did not note enslaved and formerly ...

Two genealogy sites are adding troves of historical materials about enslaved people in the U.S. to databases, which could give many of their descendants a fuller picture of their families' histories.

Burroughs, who has spent decades researching African American genealogies, said the findings are both fascinating and not uncommon. "I was able to go back to the 1850s, and they were listed as ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — The Shreve Memorial Library is highlighting African American family history with its genealogy research programs. Starting on March 15, the library’s genealogy d… ...

Along the way, she’s experienced how the lack of records and information during the slavery era, make looking into African American ancestry difficult. “You just can’t say, well, I’m just going to go ...