Posts Tagged ‘Family History’
The Long Afterlife of a Lynching
Karen Branan returns to her ancestral home in Georgia to discover the truth behind the lynching of three black men and a black woman in 1912 – including the complicity of her family. She tells the story in a new book, The Family Tree.
Read MoreBarack Obama’s Slave Ancestry Reportedly Discovered By Researchers
The country’s first Black president may be descended from slavery according to recent genealogical research.
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