Family Heritage Experience in the News
Our expert staff and their research have been featured in a number of local and national media outlets including the Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, “The Ellen Show,” “Inside Edition,” People Magazine, NPR, CNN, BBC News, Fox News, ABC News, and NBC Nightly News. Our work has also been featured in a number of prominent national television shows including “Who Do You Think You Are?” on NBC and “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr,” on PBS. We have also been featured in a variety of videos and in radio and podcasts.
GBH News Rooted
Is anyone actually 100% Black? Henry Louis Gates Jr. on DNA, race, and power.
The Boston Globe
Boston exhibit illuminates stories of ‘Patriots of Color’ through genealogy for America’s 250th.
American Ancestors, the nation’s oldest and largest genealogy society, Thursday unveiled a new exhibit, Patriots of Color, at the Family Heritage Experience museum in Back Bay.
The exhibit invites visitors to consider the role people of color played in shaping the nation’s founding 250 years ago.
Associated Press
Stories of Black and Indigenous patriots come into focus as US remembers the American Revolution.
Museum exhibits, documentary films and lectures have traditionally focused on the white leaders of the American Revolution, such as Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere.
But in recent decades, “a more accurate view of the past” has emerged that showcases the diverse collection of men and women who played critical roles in the fight for freedom.
AOL
Cambridge MA youth are telling Revolutionary War's forgotten stories.
Young artists from Cambridge are connecting the past to the present and future in a “Patriots of Color” exhibit, where they help bring to life long-overlooked stories of Black, Native and multiracial individuals who played vital roles in the founding of our nation.
7 News Boston
Mass Appeal: Family Heritage Experience
BOSTON (WHDH) - Prepare to go way back! 7’s Polikseni Manxhari, and her mother, take us to Boston’s Back Bay where a new exhibit helping people discover their ancestry is gaining Mass Appeal.
Wicked Local
A new permanent exhibition in Boston is focusing on ancestry and family history, and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was on hand for the big opening on April 25.
It's called the Family Heritage Experience.
