African American folklore also links the Lumbee community to the Underground Railroad. One oral tradition tells of mixed-race children, the result of relationships between enslaved women and their ...

Unlike the American military at the time, the force mixed white and Black volunteers in the same units. Among the African-American ... of the couple’s four children. His father was a laborer ...

"It’s rough growing up when people keep telling you 'you don’t act Black' yet you don’t look white. It could be awkward going ...

The policy was the result of African ... except children born to foreign diplomats. Initially, the law also did not include children born to foreign military members or Native American children ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” ...

The mixed messaging adds fuel to the fear and confusion ... She entered the country under a legal Temporary Protected Status when he was a child and now has a green card, giving her permanent ...

When he was asked to move to the car for African Americans, he refused and was arrested. Plessy was the perfect test case of the state’s Separate Car Act of 1890 because of Plessy’s mixed-race ...

President Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for the American-born ... allowed men and women of African descent to become citizens, and millions of children of Irish, German ...

The Democratic lawmakers confronted Kennedy with previous statements he had made to press him on his role in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019, his views on Covid-19, and his previous claims ...

Since 2013, the team has uncovered a variety of Old World objects mixed in with ... Native Americans in the colonial era typically welcomed men, women, and children of any origin into their ...

Black History Month provides a critical opportunity to challenge hegemonic historical narratives and amplify marginalised ...