Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove, tracing lineages that run from a plantation in Maryland to a speakeasy in Washington ...

The biggest names in music have been recognized for their contributions to the industry made throughout the past year ...

In "From These Roots," the author chronicles a legal and personal journey to restore dignity to her enslaved relative.

The teachings of Jesus Christ and the writings of James Madison reconcile strikingly well, a Brookings Institute senior ...

He was just three years old when authorities put him in the McIntosh Indian Residential School, away from his home in Grassy ...