American Ancestors, a national center for family history, heritage, and culture, has created the “The Ancestry of Pope Leo ...

Let’s face it: claiming a connection to some foreign nationality or ethnicity on the dubious basis of a great-grandparent or two is as American as apple pie. You know it, countless comedians know it, ...

The United States, first populated by Native Americans, rediscovered by Europeans and colonized under the flags of the Spain, Britain and France, is now filled with Germans. More than half of the ...

Despite having lower smoking habits than other groups in the U.S., Black Americans are more likely to develop lung cancer, and their survival rates are significantly worse. What explains this ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...

Local Authors Honored with National Book Award for Biography on South Carolina Medical Pioneer 🏆 ...

The Champaign Public Library’s Douglass Branch is hosting its 18th annual Juneteenth Emancipation Celebration on June 14. Juneteenth is a federal holiday that celebrates the end of slavery, which ...