With slavery's impact, how do Black residents find ancestors
With slavery's impact, how do Black residents find ancestors ISABELLE TAFT, The Sun-Herald FacebookTwitterEmail BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Her tree was incomplete. That’s how it looked to Melissa Evans when she compared her family tree to the ones created by her third-grade classmates. Some of her white classmates had branches stretching back centuries. Evans, one of only a handful of Black students at her school in Gulfport, traced her family to her great-grandparents. When other students asked why Evans’ tree was so short, their teacher didn’t want to talk about slavery, how it tore apart...