One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

The first of them read, “No shade, Yall look beautiful but where is Eve’s family?” Similarly, someone else remarked, “Where’s the African American people?” Eve and her son are the only ...

Today, for the first time, Project Ricochet held its Black Family Conference on the campus of the University of Kentucky.

The idea for a national museum of African American history and culture had been around for 100 years. When the project for ...