From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...

One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...

Passing on traditions constructs a special sense of community along with a quilt. Through the lens of African American quilts, explore layers of creativity, diversity, and family history that enrich ...

Barack Obama, a biracial man, had just become President of The United States. Pickens believed the President’s story had significant ties to the interracial history of his own family. He contacted the ...

Unique to the IAAM is its Center for Family History, a one-of-a-kind research center with a special focus on African American genealogy. Designed to serve as a groundbreaking resource for the ...

Stowe's story of an African American family's oppression under the "peculiar institution" of slavery struck an immediate chord with Northern readers, most of whom had never witnessed Southern ...