“There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.”
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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3, 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
