The moment you’re told the dreaded words: “You have cancer,” your life changes forever. A parent diagnosed with cancer goes through a rollercoaster of emotions from guilt and shame to resiliency. “For ...

Rep. Esther Agbaje, DFL-Minneapolis, speaks about her bill during a Minnesota House Judiciary and Public Safety Committee hearing concerning the African American Family Preservation Act, also known as ...

Dr. Fields-Black is the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...

Genealogist Tony Burroughs shares resources for tracing African American family ancestry. Internationally known genealogist Tony Burroughs, who has consulted with celebrities such as Smokey Robinson ...

The Victor Valley Union High School District recently launched a new council to address the needs and concerns of African-American families. The District African American Parent Advisory Council ...

BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas — Every year across Southeast Texas and across the country, African Americans gather for family reunions that are more than just celebrations. They’re a testament to resilience, ...

Christina Jordan has always known she was born into a family of firsts. Jordan’s family is a family of trailblazers on Sanibel Island. It all started with her grandfather, Carl Jordan, the first ...

A panel discussion on the Great Migration and the 9th annual African American Family Book Expo. We continue our look at the new PBS docuseries from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Great Migrations: A People ...

The Supreme Court ruling is just the latest version of a question that the Whitehead family — and the nation — has been grappling with for years: How to deal with the legacy of slavery? Amir Whitehead ...

HOUSTON — Juneteenth is more than a date on the calendar. It’s a return home. A time to reflect, rejoice, and reconnect. In KHOU 11’s fifth installment of our award-winning Juneteenth series, ...

You may have heard about a debutante cotillion before. They started back in the 1700 as part of British nobility. Young women were paraded in front of eligible suitors for potential marriage as seen ...

Introduction: the long rugged road / William R. Scott and William G. Shade -- Africa, the slave trade, and the diaspora / Joseph C. Miller -- Creating a biracial society, 1619-1720 / Jean R. Soderlund ...