Dr. Gina Paige, co-founder of African Ancestry, is giving African Americans the pathway to connect further with their ...

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 newest family in a southwest ... is much bigger among African-American families. "Twenty-two percent of African Americans are homeowners, and that is a huge disparity," Allen said.