"Roll, Jordan, Roll" was was coded for escaped slaves The coded song for escaped slaves, "Roll, Jordan, Roll," was one of many notable works captured by a young musicologist and...
During your early discoveries of family ancestry, it is likely that you will find words, phrases, photographs and other documents that may trigger emotions and reactions that you may have...
A few jewelry pieces gifted to me from my maternal grandmother, Helen "Mama Helen" Wilkes Owen Douthy. Mama Helen, my maternal grandmother, had the most extensive jewelry collection with pieces...
Omaha, Nebraska's Woods-Hughes-Liggins family is very special to the Owen-Wead family. My Dad, Dr. Rodney S. Wead, https://northomahahistory.com/2019/12/11/a-biography-of-rodney-wead/considers Media Maven Cathy Hughes https://www.omahamagazine.com/2018/11/21/301576/cathy-hughes his "little sis." Dad and Cathy met...
Honored now posthumously by Ice Skating organizations, young black women Mabel Fairbanks Mabel Fairbanks was born in Jacksonville, Florida in the early 1920s. Life there was subjugated by abject poverty,...
