By his own lights, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ambassador, senator, sociologist, and itinerant American intellectual, was the product of a broken home and a pathological family. He was born in 1927 ...

In August, Ancestry.com shared 3.5 million-plus Freedmen's Bureau records dating back to 1846. The free search tool has helped Black families learn about their ancestors lives after the Civil War ...

Long before Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago in 1955, his family was building a life in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, an area that once buzzed with Black-owned businesses, culture, and a relentless ...