(The Root) — The search for African-American ancestors can be complicated by the fact that some of our slave ancestors took as their last names the surnames of their masters when they were freed in ...

Tajanae Harris and Rebecca Bradshaw met for the first time this week after learning that their families intersected nearly 200 years ago as slave and slave owner. Bradshaw presented Harris with ...

The Department for Communities has been urged to acknowledge that some historical figures highlighted in a new public history project were slave owners.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s marriage to her husband and familial history was dissected by The Washington Post in an article from Monday about slavery. The article was headlined, ...

Although Kamala Harris' father has stated that his family lineage traced back to an Irish slave owner in Jamaica named Hamilton Brown, confirming this link has not been possible due to a lack of ...

Within minutes of stepping off the plane in Guyana, Charlie Gladstone began to regret his decision to come. This was the first time he’d set foot in the country, but he had an old, ugly tie to it: one ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...

"I took 6 years and fit as much as I could in a 2.5 hour musical," he tweeted. "Hamilton," the critically acclaimed musical that collected a whopping 11 Tony Awards, is available for streaming now on ...

The candidate said ending the legacy of slavery now had a personal connection. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has revealed that he and his wife Amy are descended from slave owners. In ...