One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made ... The challenges of reaching back to the period before the Civil War ...

Through his nonprofit organization, the Alex Breanne Corporation, John Mills helped 50 people build their family tree that ...

According to Nicka Sewell-Smith, Ancestry’s Senior Story Producer and a genealogist, “The truth is, family history research can be challenging for African Americans because of U.S. slavery and ...

Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba.

Over the holidays, the rapper and his family also visited Ghana for The ... Unsurprisingly, many found their lineage back in Africa. The Black-ish was born and raised in Compton, California ...