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  • Obama’s purported link to early American slave is latest twist in family tree

    Obama’s purported link to early American slave is latest twist in family tree The Washington Post 2012-07-30 Krissah Thompson President Obama’s extraordinary family story gained a new layer this week as a team of genealogists found evidence that he is most likely a descendant of one of the first documented African slaves in this country.…

  • Almost White

    Almost White Macmillan 1963 212 pages Original Classication ID: E184.A1 B53 Source: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library Brewton Berry Contents Preface 1. The Myth of the Vanishing Indian 2. Where Are They? 3. Who Are They? 4. What the Whites Believe 5. What the Negro Thinks 6. Etiquette 7. How They…

  • Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America

    Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America Ancestry.com Provo, Utah 2012-07-30 Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies PROVO, UTAH – July 30, 2012 – A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is…

  • Halle Berry and the Resurgence of the Tragic Mulatto

    Halle Berry and the Resurgence of the Tragic Mulatto The Root 2011-02-22 Clay Cane The furor caused by Berry’s assertion that her daughter is black reminds us how confused Americans remain about race. Halle Berry’s recent comments in Ebony magazine have brought up the complex subject of racial identity, which still seems to confuse many…

  • From Negro to Caucasian: or, How the Ethiopian is Changing His Skin

    A concise presentation of the manner in which many Negroes in America … have abandoned their… afiliation with Negroes

  • Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests

    Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests The New York Times 2012-07-30 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not…

  • The Powhatan Remnants

    The Powhatan Remnants melungeons.com 2001 Helen Campbell Prior to the white man’s arrival in America, a chain of separate but interacting Algonquian communities thrived along the Atlantic coastline. The Indians thrived in communities from the Chesapeake to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. When warm weather arrived, the Indians used the coastline for fishing and hunting.…

  • New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary

    New Americans: Rise of the Multiracials: A Documentary A Work-In-Progress Documentary Eli Steele, Producer With more Americans marrying across the color line today than before, it is inevitable that the racial makeup of America’s face will forever change. Of the nine million individuals that identified themselves as multiracial on the 2010 census, more than 50…

  • Lives: A Final Message From My Mother

    Lives: A Final Message From My Mother The New York Times 2012-07-20 Josiah Howard The first note I ever wrote for my mother wasn’t very special, but she seemed to think it was. It said: “Hi Mom! Have a nice day! Love Skip!” (her nickname for me). My message was scribbled on a scrap of…

  • 16th Union Report

    16th Union Report Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 16th Union at the Southwest Virginia Historical Museum State Park 2012-07-11 K. Paul Johnson Every Melungeon Union combines an extended family reunion with a scholarly conference featuring authors and researchers sharing the latest perspectives on our heritage.  All presenters come at their own expense, as…