Relocating Black cemeteries in Virginia reveals how America has long denied full humanity, and how to reclaim it.

"We don’t have to just live with the memories of our ancestors," writes author Beronda L. Montgomery. "We can physically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A picture of Skulls of Ancient Humans at the Natural History Museum of Oslo. Humans are everywhere nowadays, but Homo sapiens and ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

A new study suggests human ancestors nearly went extinct some 930,000 years ago. Scientists in China used modern human genomes to estimate what past populations may have looked like. The study ...

Humans are exceptionally diverse, but we all have something in common: We're Homo sapiens, and we share a common ancestor. But the story of how we arose, spread around the globe and acted along the ...

The push for museums, universities, and federal agencies to return Indigenous remains and sacred belongings is getting stronger as federal regulations have further tightened the rules around how these ...

Lately it feels like ancestors are talking to me all the time. I think this is good news. For most of my life I have been told what my ancestors have done so that I might live, so that I may ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Decades of history can be found in a single painting. Fern Cloud is a Native American artist who shares her peoples' stories by preserving the way her ancestors told them: through ...