Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Advances in our understanding of DNA have brought about many changes. One of them is just how easy it is now to obtain a DNA ...

Pope Leo’s lineage is international. His ancestors were born in France, Italy, Spain, the US, Cuba, Canada, Haiti, and ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into ...

A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively than ever before that Americans’ self-reported race is a ...

Sherman outlined the steps he and Stahr took in tracing his family tree, including learning that his birth mother, an ...

Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. joins Morning Joe to discuss Season 11 of 'Finding Your Roots'. Season 11 features appearances by ...

Ancestry CEO Howard Hochhauser told the Fortune COO Summit that he didn't initially seek out the corner office.

I’ve been thinking about life’s messy beauty and the pockets of joy that can be found during challenging times,” she tells ...

Researchers looked at a gene that is critical to regulating the body’s iron levels. A common genetic variant is linked to a ...