The following is a press release written by the folks at the National Association of Black Bookstores: Inspired by the legacy of the country’s first Black-owned bookstores and the remarkable individuals behind them, the official launch of the National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2) took place today. As a first-of-its-kind national organization, NAB2 has been built …
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CariGenetics Launches Genealogy Consultation Service
CariGenetics has launched MyLineage a “genealogy consultation service that empowers Bermudians to trace their ancestry as far back as the 1600s, through a powerful database of over 140,000 Bermudians.” A spokesperson said, “Launched at the ‘Bermudian Heartbeats’ Law to Legacy Unravelling the Narrative’ series on August 7, the debut of MyLineage gave attendees the opportunity to …
From Bronze Age to Byzantium: Ancient DNA Maps 5,000 Years of Life in the Caucasus
A peer-reviewed article released in Cell reconstructed 5,000 years of population history in the Southern Caucasus through ancient DNA from 230 individuals recovered at 50 sites in present-day Georgia and Armenia. The investigation, led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Tbilisi State University, and partner institutions within the Max Planck – Harvard Research …