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Is your baby's name a reflection on you?

By Kunbi Tinuoye

5:03 PM on 01/19/2012

theGRIO REPORT - For African-American parents choosing a name for their child is more complex because of the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade...
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. still hunting for great-great grandfather

By theGrio

2:04 PM on 01/18/2012

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates Jr. is asking all residents of Allegany County, Maryland, who are of Irish descent to get their DNA tested to help solve a 150-year-old family mystery -- who is Gates' great-great grandfather?...
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Slave descendants fight to stay in Cherokee tribe

By theGrio

2:52 PM on 10/07/2011

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Nearly 3,000 people whose ancestors were enslaved by Cherokee Indians in the 1800s are fighting to keep their status as members of the tribe...
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Judge tosses 1 of 2 suits over Cherokee freedmen

By theGrio

9:53 AM on 10/03/2011

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A federal judge on Friday dismissed one of two lawsuits over whether black slaves once owned by members of the Cherokee Nation have the right to tribal citizenship...
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New Va. database helps trace slave descendants

By theGrio

5:34 PM on 09/19/2011

VIDEO - Letters, bonds, wills and court letters are held at the Virginia Historical Society. The documents are not open to the public...
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Cherokee Nation refuses US demand to reinstate black 'freedmen'

By theGrio

11:25 AM on 09/15/2011

The Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a letter to the Cherokee Nation on Monday demanding that the tribe reinstate the black "Cherokee Freedmen" that had been members of their group since 1866....
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Is the Cherokee Nation cutting off its black roots?

By Vivian Glover

1:00 PM on 08/29/2011

theGRIO REPORT - In 1863, the Freedmen were made citizens by an act of the Cherokee National Council, which awarded them all the rights and privileges afforded members of their tribe...
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Second-largest Native American tribe expels slave descendants

By theGrio

4:14 PM on 08/26/2011

The Cherokee nation Supreme Court ruled that a 2007 tribal decision to kick the so-called "Freedmen" out of the tribe was proper.
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Free genetic testing: A blueprint for saving black lives?

By Tricia McCarter

1:04 PM on 08/11/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Adults of African descent can have genetic testing performed for free, starting this month, as part of a national project called Roots into the Future...
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Why we remain fascinated with Obama's father

By Michael Arceneaux

8:01 AM on 07/08/2011

OPINION - Last time I checked, the identity of President Obama's father and a long list his flaws have long been made public -- at least to anyone who read Obama's book...
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Author: Obama's father planned to give him up for adoption

By theGrio

6:55 PM on 07/07/2011

Through exhaustive interviews, Jacobs assembles a complex depiction of the elder Obama as a brilliant but troubled man.
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Cain runs away from his African roots in GOP race

By Edward Wyckoff Williams

8:27 AM on 06/14/2011

OPINION - Cain essentially suggests that being 'African' is somehow a trait to be disavowed -- instead of embraced and celebrated...
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Why the Irish embraced Obama as their own

By Edward Wyckoff Williams

8:54 AM on 05/24/2011

OPINION - It seems serendipitous that the man who occupies the Oval Office is a descendant of two ethnic groups well versed in the politics of discrimination...
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Obama returns to his ancestral roots in Ireland

By theGrio

11:51 AM on 05/23/2011

DUBLIN (AP) - President Obama said Monday that the U.S. and Ireland share a "blood link" that extends beyond strategic interests or foreign policy...
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Washington: the 'blackest name' in America

By theGrio

8:20 AM on 02/21/2011

(AP) - The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American...
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Atlanta family's roots get tangled up in Africa

By theGrio

2:41 PM on 02/02/2011

MSNBC - When William Holland traveled from Atlanta to Cameroon to dig into his family roots, the quest succeeded beyond his wildest dreams...
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Genealogists: Obama related to Palin, Limbaugh

By theGrio

9:16 AM on 10/13/2010

NEW YORK (AP) - Genealogists at Ancestry.com have been tracing President Obama's family tree and found connections with a couple of his top political foes...
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Hitler 'had Jewish, African roots', DNA tests show

By theGrio

9:53 AM on 08/25/2010

TELEGRAPH UK - Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the Nazi leader show he may have had biological links to the "subhuman" races that he tried to exterminate...
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Caribbeans urged to write in ancestry on Census

By theGrio

11:12 AM on 02/25/2010

MIAMI (AP) -- Black people of Caribbean descent are being asked by their community's leaders to write in their nationalities on the upcoming U.S. Census...
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President Obama related to Warren Buffett?

By theGrio

10:50 AM on 12/15/2009

VIDEO - President Barack Obama and billionaire investment banker Warren Buffet are seventh cousins three times removed according to genealogists at ancestry.com...
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