Nov 17th, 2008 · He's descended from jazz royalty, and he wears it with pride. But the saxophonist has engineered his own modern and thoroughly personal approach to improvisation. Hear Ravi Coltrane's working quartet perform live at the Vanguard.
Nov 8th, 2008 · There's not really an apostrophe in the president-elect's name, but a small village in Ireland claims Barack Obama is a descendant.
Nov 3rd, 2008 · Some Chicagoans will go to great lengths to get tickets to the Obama event in Grant Park on election night. On Tuesday, 1 million people are expected to descend on Chicago's Grant Park where Obama will hold an election night rally.
Oct 31st, 2008 · Oetzi, a mummified man found frozen in the Italian Alps after 5,300 years, has no living genetic descendants among modern humans. The discovery came after researchers sequenced Oetzi's entire genome and compared it with human DNA.
Oct 30th, 2008 · Scientists have learned a lot about the man whose 5,300-year-old remains were discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991. But one question has remained unanswered: Does he have any living descendants? Apparently not, at least based on genetic markers from his mother.
Oct 21st, 2008 · Senator John McCain's ancestors owned a Mississippi plantation and about 120 slaves who worked the grounds. Farai Chideya talks with Douglas Blackmon of the Wall Street Journal and Lillie McCain, a descendant of the McCain plantation workers, about how the black McCains see this election.
Oct 10th, 2008 · Will Aston-Reese is vice president for money-market sales at Tradition Asiel Securities. For the past several weeks, a dead calm has descended on the office with the size of deals shrinking to the millions of dollars if they happen at all.
Oct 10th, 2008 · It was just two years ago, that Annie Moore's descendants discovered she provided a face for America's immigrant story. Moore was the first immigrant to be processed at Ellis Island, in 1892. On Saturday, she'll finally get a marker on her grave. The Irish immigrant made a new life in America, but died poor. Brian Andersson, New York's Commissioner of Records, says the new headstone will honor a person with a very specific "spot in history."