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I have been working on my family tree (at least for the time my family has spent in the US) and I'm hitting so many walls.

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Unearthing My Family's Black Roots | YourTango

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Reparative Genealogy - Reparations 4 Slavery

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Lost Lineage: The quest to identify black Americans' roots

But for Americans descended from enslaved Africans, the roots of their ancestry are often a mystery. Family trees go dark after five or six ...

Why is it that no 'African-American' can trace any relative ancestrally ...

Plenty of African Americans can trace their ancestry, but when they can't, the reason is because records were seldom maintained, as completely ...

Exploring racial segregation, historical memory of Seattle

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Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses race, history, and memory with ...

And yet, the story of the White Lion in 1619 had been completely erased from our national memory,” said Hannah-Jones. “And so even as a 15-year- ...

Naming my African American ancestors to keep them alive

Like many African Americans, I can only trace my family lineage to a certain point, and I have more questions than answers about my actual ...

Critical Family History - Christine Sleeter

Critical family history as memory work interrogates the interaction between family and ... These are the questions Parham's Black family historians were asking; ...

Black Families Can Now Recover More of Their Lost Histories

But I had not thought to research my own family's history. Seeing that open grave made me feel as though I had turned my back on my ancestors. I ...

“My mother hid her racial identity”: Revisiting The Secret Album

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May 2018: Not Othering Our Ancestors - WHITE NOISE COLLECTIVE

History is long and wide and deep and all of us have ancestors we can be absolutely proud of, all of us have ancestors that have raided and ...

Finding the Hidden Legacies of African American (and Other) Families

Documenting and finding lost family history proves as daunting as locating vital statistics, but the effort to perform such a genealogical ...

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