Why the Irish embraced Obama as their own
OPINION - It seems serendipitous that the man who occupies the Oval Office is a descendant of two ethnic groups well versed in the politics of discrimination...
Obama returns to his ancestral roots in Ireland
DUBLIN (AP) - President Obama said Monday that the U.S. and Ireland share a "blood link" that extends beyond strategic interests or foreign policy...
Washington: the 'blackest name' in America
(AP) - The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American...
Atlanta family's roots get tangled up in Africa
MSNBC - When William Holland traveled from Atlanta to Cameroon to dig into his family roots, the quest succeeded beyond his wildest dreams...
Hitler 'had Jewish, African roots', DNA tests show
TELEGRAPH UK - Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Nazi leader show he may have had biological links to the "subhuman" races that he tried to exterminate...
Caribbeans urged to write in ancestry on Census
MIAMI (AP) -- Black people of Caribbean descent are being asked by their community's leaders to write in their nationalities on the upcoming U.S. Census...
President Obama related to Warren Buffett?
VIDEO - President Barack Obama and billionaire investment banker Warren Buffet are seventh cousins three times removed according to genealogists at ancestry.com...
South Carolina board pardons Tom Joyner's ancestors
VIDEO - Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran...
Michelle Obama had black and white ancestors, just like most of us
OPINION - The news that First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great-grandmother was a slave and that her great-great-great grandfather was a white man has been a topic of much discussion.
