Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORONADO, Calif. — Standing on their lawn, members of the Dong family waited to meet the great-grandkids of a Black couple who ...

Among Black adults, 77% have at least one non-relative they consider family. This might be someone with whom they share childhood experiences, religious beliefs, an identity such as race or gender, or ...

MOVING MONUMENT Volunteer Barbara Keimi stamps a signature in ‘The Ireichō: Book of Names.’ (Photo courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum) A shameful chapter of U.S. history is being ...

Debate is heating up across social media, in group chats and among friends, capturing the attention of Black Americans across the nation — and it centers on what’s called the delineation movement.

According to the 23andMe DNA-testing service, I have 0.1 percent West African DNA from my mother. I also have approximately 5-6 percent Native American from my mother, who is now deceased. I have a ...

Earlier this year, as she and her spouse piled into their Hyundai Tucson and prepared to travel the American South seeking answers about the ancestors she knew had been enslaved, Michelle Johnson ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) -There’s work in East Texas that’s helping many dig deeper into their African American roots. Because of a lack of record keeping during the slavery era, tracking African American ...

Irene Nakahara still wonders what could have been. As a third-generation Japanese American living in Los Angeles during the early 1940s, the now 85-year-old had a bright future. She later told her ...