James joined us to chat about The Battle of New Market Heights (VA) and the bravery…
Category: AfAm History
The history of people pf colour in the United States – both free and enslaved – relayed through the prism of my own ancestors.
S04 E16: The Black Archives of Mid America with Dr. Carmaletta Williams
The mission of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, Inc. (https://blackarchives.org) is to collect,…
S04 E15: The Negro Motorist Green Book with Yoruba Richen
Professor Yoruba Richen is a documentary filmmaker who created the documentary specialization at the Newmark J-School.…
Researching Poorly Documented Ancestors: Harriet Roberts (Northampton County, NC)
The case I am working on couldn’t be more different. It involves the multiple movements of…
S04 E09: “Ruth and the Green Book” with author Calvin Alexander Ramsey
The Green Book: The Black Travelers’ Guide to Jim Crow America. For nearly 30 years, a…
S04 E07: The 2020 Election, Voting History, and Genealogy
Unfortunately, our scheduled guest wasn’t able to join us at the last minute. So this episode…
S04 E06 A Chat About Civil Rights with the Hon. James L. Felder
The Hon. James L. Felder has the distinction of being the first African American voted into…
S04 E03 Genealogy @ National Museum of African American History & Culture Library with Hollis Gentry
We were so pleased and excited to have Hollis L Gentry join us on the show…
S04 E02: The Slave Voyages Project with Dr. Nafees M. Khan
The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and…
GA Live! Book Club: “The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves”
Genealogy Adventures Live! Book Club In the first episode of Season 4, we launched our Genealogy…