Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks

The Washington Post Company has introduced an online magazine primarily for a black audience, with news and commentary on politics and culture, and tools for readers to research their family histories. Of note to genealogists, the new magazine features a section entitled “Roots” that will have online tools for people to build their family trees, link to or add information to other people’s trees and to construct maps showing their ancestral trails.

The new magazine will also urge people to have DNA testing, which can help them trace their backgrounds to specific ethnic groups and parts of the world. It will offer links to companies that do the testing, including to one company that is co-owned by the online magazine's editor in chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The online magazine may be found at http://www.theroot.com.

Comments

[Geri]

Went to the website and loved it! I registered right away. I have been waiting for a sight like this. And I am excited that Henry Louis Gates Jr. is behind the Root.

[Mary]

I ditto Jeri's comments. This is a really neat and informative site.

[Martha Beamon]

I say AMEN to this info. I am inspired to the max, certain it will help me in my search.