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2020-2025
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2016-2025
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February 2025
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Researching Ancestral Land
Virtual. Sponsored by The Black Reparations Project (BRP) at Northeastern University.
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Previous Press and
Recorded Interviews
- DNA testing can help Black Americans reclaim their identity and history, USA Today
- Connecting Your Past to the Present: Genealogy, DNA, and Identity w/ Nicka Sewell Smith, Guilty Privilege Podcast
- This database could help descendants of enslaved people learn about their ancestry, NPR
- Ancestry.com uses AI to boost Black family trees, Axios
- Radiolab’s Alex Neason Dives Into The Story of Her Name, All of It With Alison Stewart
- Family People, Radiolab
- We are Facing History: Personal Stories, Identities, and our Connected Past, panel with Dr. Tiya Miles, Facing History Facing Ourselves
- Nicka Smith & Nicole Robinson On The Importance of Black People Knowing Genealogy & Ancestry.com, Sway’s Universe
- This nine-year-old was enslaved in the US. Her story could help stop a chemical plant, The Guardian
- Genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith is taking a deeper dive into Black history, Rolling Out
- In ‘A Dream Delivered,’ an African-American Family Uncovers Its History, MTV News
- ‘A Dream Delivered’: New film tells story of lost letters reuniting relatives of man born into slavery, Deseret News
- Questions and Ancestors: Black Family History – Karamo Brown
- Unlocking the Past Through DNA Heritage Travel With Genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith: ‘Let’s Go Together’ Season 2, Episode 26
- Held in the Balance: The Lecture, Amherst College
- ‘We Were Just Passengers’ Freedom Rider Charles Person On The Bus Rides That Changed His Life, MSNBC
- Black News Tonight with Marc Lamont Hill – BNC
- Digital records from 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry, Curtis Bunn, NBC
- A Story She Never Knew, NY Times
- Freedmen’s Bureau Records on Ancestry 2021, GenealogyTV
- Ancestry Unlocks Records To A Little Known Part of Black History, Tanya Christian, Ebony
- New digital collection offers missing link for Black families researching their history, WTOP
- Questions and Ancestors: Black Family History – Elaine Welteroth
- Let it Be Known, Black Press USA, April 23, 2021
- Nicka Smith: Ancestry consultant, Cherokee slave owner’s descendant, Nation citizen, Daughter Dialogues
- The TammiMac Show, FoxSoul, March 9, 2021
- Simone Boyce Traces Her Family Roots Back To Her Great-Great-Great Grandmother, MSNBC
- Simone Boyce Learns About Her Past And The Story Of Her Great-Great-Great Grandmother, MSNBC
- Civil War reenactor makes a surprising discovery, CNN
- The Census Is More Than Just a Form. It’s a Window Into the History of American Families, Jennifer Mendelsohn, Time
- “The bitter harvest of Richard Bibb: A descendant of slavery confronts her inheritance,” Lonnae O’Neal, Andscape (formerly The Undefeated)
- “A genealogist’s discovery: ‘Ventress owned my family,” Blake Alsup, The Daily Mississippi
