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 ...

Its in response to the Waterloo Community School District withdrawing from the University of Northern Iowa’s African American read-in, which is a nearly 20 year tradition. Four Black children’s book ...

She is the author of multiple books, most recently “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family ... As part of the first generation of African-descended young people to engage ...