Posts Tagged ‘Family History’
ABHM Book Club, MIAD & MCHS Proudly Present: All That She Carried By Tiya Miles
On Thursday, January 25th we will discuss All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, in partnership with the Milwaukee County Historical Society (MCHS) and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), who will help lead the discussion and connect the book to an exhibition and to museums, more broadly.
Read MoreReckoning with Family Secrets in Best Seller, In the Pines
Grace Elizabeth Hale, an award-winning historian from the University of Virginia, has written a book about the 1947 lynching in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. Hale’s book, “In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning,” is more than just historical research. She discovered her grandfather, Oury Berry’s lie.
Read MoreCalifornia panel OKs reparations limit for slave descendants
Reparations efforts at the federal level have not gone anywhere, but cities and universities are taking up the issue, such as the California Tuesday Panel.
Read MoreFamily trees fill in the gaps for Black people seeking their ancestral roots
By Curtis Bunn, NBC News Black people have been able to connect with the past and give new agency to their identities through building family trees and researching their family histories. Growing up in Philadelphia, Amber Jackson said she knew so little of her history that she felt disconnected from who she was. “They didn’t…
Read MoreAn old Virginia plantation, a new owner and a family legacy unveiled
His roots were deep in this part of Pittsylvania County, and he wanted to buy a place where his vast extended family, many of whom still live nearby, could gather. He didn’t know it had once been a plantation or that 58 people had once been enslaved there. He never considered that its past had anything to do with him.
Read MoreThe 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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