Family trees, photo albums, and grandparents are often the go-to sources of information for people curious to know who their relatives were. Genetic ancestry is also a useful tool, but these ...

Gina Paige is president of African Ancestry, a company that specializes in analyzing DNA from African Americans. Paige talks about her work researching lineage and what she learned about her own ...

Can you take us through your professional journey? I was born and raised in the United States, and much of my professional life began in entrepreneurship, marketing, and business development. Over the ...

“The influence of ancestry is important in helping forward any individual or race … The fact that the individual has behind and surrounding him proud family history and connection serves as a stimulus ...

As a shy undergraduate at Harvard University in the late sixties, Constance Hilliard butted heads with the stodgy chairman of the history department. Convinced that there were untold stories buried in ...

Ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith, of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, made a formal call last week on stony old Prime Minister Malan. He walked across the lawn of Malan’s Cape ...

Some political figures seek to remove references to slavery from the study of American history, adding to the vast knowledge gaps that stem from the transatlantic slave trade. To better understand ...