Ancestry

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Cleaster Cotton captures Asheville’s DNA in her art

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Ancestors put me on game: How my unknown legacy inspired a career risk

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Asheville through my eyes: Rich in Black history

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New Freedmen’s Bureau collection on Ancestry.com can help African Americans trace family roots

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Kamala Harris Campaigns In Pennsylvania On Eve Of Election Day

Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in India prays for election victory

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Woman takes 2 ancestry tests, gets 2 wildly different results

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Ronda Rousey’s mom reveals UFC fighter’s great grandfather is famous black physician

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Ronda Rousey’s mom reveals UFC fighter's great grandfather is famous black physician

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Black family slavery-era records to be digitized, available for free online

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Ben Affleck offers Facebook apology for covering up slave-owning ancestor: 'I was embarrassed'

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Study proves Southern white people have more black DNA than those in the rest of the U.S

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Black Americans undergo cleansing from 'slavery stigma' in Africa

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theGrio's 100: Dr. Rick Kittles, uncovering our genetic roots

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Native American roots in Black America run deep

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Is Halle Berry related to Aretha Franklin and Sarah Palin?

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Halle Berry reveals she is a 'distant relative' of Sarah Palin

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Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, may be descendant of a black slave

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'American Tapestry' author says book on Michelle Obama's ancestry encapsulates 'American experience'

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DNA evidence reveals Michelle Obama’s white slave master ancestry

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Blair Underwood talks tracing his African roots and 'Streetcar' role

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