Ancestry.com has pulled an ad after the company was blasted by critics on social media depicting slavery as a romanticized adventure. “Abigail, we can escape to the North. There’s a place we can be together — across the border.” The ad 30-second spot titled “Inseparable,” shows a white man and a Black woman in Civil […]

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  has made it a mission to uncover and celebrate history. One of his most compelling ways to do so is…