California’s earliest Black settlers bought land only for it to be stolen. Their descendants want it back.

[ad_1] The Blue family, Sacramento Les Robinson had to leave a family cookout to compose himself. A cousin told him to look up an ancestor on his phone — Daniel…

WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants

[ad_1] The U.S. government is considering asking Black Americans on federal forms, including the census, whether their ancestors were enslaved. In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’…