No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black ci….

Instill respect for teachers..

What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the s….

It's fascinating how life works..

I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's ….

We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some stil….

I'd say imagine that you wake up one morning when you're going through a midlife crisis. You're getting divorced. Your kids won't speak to you. Their….

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I t….

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby,….

My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin' and hollerin' and jumpin' ….

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very lit….

Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph E….

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the….

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to unde….

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that u….

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black….

Like the amazing story of Anthony Johnson. This man was a slave, then became free, accumulated 250 acres, and even had his own slave, a black man who….

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure..

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudice….

Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still….

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below….