Whether through singing, dancing, artifacts or maps, the Sankofa Children's Museum of African Cultures in Park Heights wants to transport you to Africa. This year, the museum is helping people connect ...
What It Is: Tracing my Irish ancestry on a “DNA tourism” vacation. “The package was created in response to the growing DNA tourism trend in the U.S., where Americans are increasingly booking trips to ...
On a work trip to Kenya nearly three decades ago, Cecelia Gore was bombarded with questions about her African ethnicity. Her tall, statuette frame prompted guesses about whether Gore was Maasai, an ...
A nagging question she had pondered for years inspired professor Naseemah Mohamed’s latest course: What knowledge could she give students that they would carry with them beyond college? As an ...
OLIVER. WHETHER THROUGH SINGING, PLAYING A LIFE OF GOD OR DANCING. ARTIFACTS OR MAPS. SOUTH, THE EAST AND THE WEST. THE SANKOFA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM WANTS TO TRANSPORT YOU TO AFRICA. WHAT WE DO IS ...
Founded in 2003 by Dr. Rick Kittles and Gina Paige, African Ancestry is the largest database of African maternal and paternal lineages across the world. With over 30,000 indigenous African DNA samples ...
From the 1500s through the Civil War, more than 10 million Black men, women and children were enslaved in America. Slavery deemed them property. They were listed on bills of sale; their family members ...