Tracing Your Roots: Search the records of the Freedmen's Bureau kept by the National Archives.

Black Academy Awards Series: Precious filmmaker gets real on Django, Oscar nods and his fellow director.

Writing at Time, professor Christina Greer explains why she is a fan of HBO's Girls, which has come under fire for representing only white New York. 

Her triumph over cancer isn't the only reason the GMA star is one of the most loved hosts on TV.

It's no excuse for what he did, says the author. She should know -- she lives with the disease, too.

Some unsolicited advice to African Americans from the "I'll either be dead or in jail if the president is re-elected" rocker.