NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — For a lot of people, it's not too hard to trace back their family's roots to different countries and backgrounds. But that ease is not universal. Theresa Gordon took her ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Many Black people depend on historical documents to learn about their family history. We take a look at the role Black-owned newspapers played in preserving that history.

A funeral director leads a prayer at the burial service for Noelani "Dallas" Perry, in Thoreau, N.M., in July 2020. Maia Duerr’s parents died from COVID-19 in January 2021. The pandemic was raging, so ...

Dr. Valarie Richardson, Earl Richardson, Jr., and Alex Richardson, the owners of Richard Funeral Home are working with Dr. Antoinette Harrell, a respected historian and genealogist, to help preserve ...

The federal government program designed to help cover funeral costs for people who have died of COVID-19 was inundated with more than 1 million calls on its launch day. The Federal Emergency Agency ...

(TNS) - In the first 90 minutes of Federal Emergency Management Agency's COVID-19 funeral assistance program, the office said they got nearly one million calls. On April 12 , FEMA launched a COVID-19 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Even for someone ...

St. Francisville native Sally Allen Jones was born in 1916 just 51 years after African Americans gained their freedom and 49 years before the Voting Rights Act guaranteed her right to vote. History ...

It’s a federal program that could help you with funeral costs if your loved one passed away from COVID-19. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) started taking applications in mid-April over ...