The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.