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

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

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, records show.. ABC News has obtained several records, including ...

For Juneteenth, here's our growing database of African American burial grounds in New Jersey — and what they mean to us today ...

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

Whether you are related or not, everyone is family at Saturday’s Juneteenth Family Reunion. Celebrate the spirit of coming together in this block party, held in collaboration between several community ...

For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights into their family tree. An African lion, moving through tall grasses ...

I’d never considered Zimbabwe as a destination, but discover it has the same animals and wildly beautiful landscapes as its ...

Photos from the unveiling of the historical marker. In 1911, John Jordan, a 19-year-old African American, was lynched by a ...

Tufts University had always felt like home for Jaiden Mosley. It was where his love for African American history was nurtured. Where the student body along Walnut Hill welcomed him with open arms ...