Though a difficult “attraction” you’ll learn more about slavery in Charlottesville and the life of Sally Hemings, that you may not have know previously. Two-hours of exploration through the ...

That’s pretty neat! Were there any other famous ancestors hiding out in Irish genes? The team did compare the modern group with two ancient genomes from Ireland. One came from a person who lived ...

She really, really wishes she didn’t. Hers are loud and painful, can last for hours, and have shown up more than a dozen times a month since she was a tiny baby. A bad bout feels like being punc ...

What Kearse did have was her story, and a small box passed on from her late mother, Ruby Laura Madison Wilson, filled with old land deeds, family birth certificates and a copy of an 1860 slave census ...

We believe that they are our ancestors, so they are pretty much like our brothers and sisters,” Tucker says as she sits on a picnic bench in the southwest section of Saguaro National Park West ...

Additionally, he rejected widely accepted scholarship on the six children The Thomas Jefferson Foundation says he had with Sally Hemings, a woman enslaved on his plantation. But that hasn’t put a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place ...

This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WITF listener Tom Rymsza of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. Sunday Puzzle: Initial fame I'm going to give you ...

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Earlier attempts to enact one-drop laws had failed, legislators realizing they might be found out to have Black ancestors. "It is a scientific fact that there is not one full-blooded Caucasian on the ...