Most people recognize that there are first names given almost exclusively by black Americans to their children, such as Jamal and Latasha. Historical evidence does not support this belief. Until a few ...

“The Shining Mountains” they were called by the Utes, great upheavals of Earth’s crust, creating the beautiful vistas we now call the Rocky Mountains. The Utes (Nuche) were onto something with their ...

The ultimate goal is to make a searchable database of the hidden history. For centuries, access to the Black American story has been severely limited by the lack of genealogical records of enslaved ...

The 10 Million Names Project from American Ancestors is designed to create a database of names and stories of Black people who were enslaved in the United States before 1865, the year the Civil War ...

The project is working to recover the names of people enslaved before 1865. For many Black Americans, tracing one’s family roots back more than 150 years has been nearly impossible due to a lack of ...

For anyone who has ever struggled to properly pronounce place names like “Eufaula” (in Alabama), “Karlsruhe” (in North Dakota), or “Fontainebleau” (in Florida), it is probably not news that many of ...