As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

Pope Leo XIV received a copy of his family tree from Henry Louis Gates Jr., marking his first public acknowledgment of his Black ancestry.

Pope Leo XIV, who is the first American pope in history, has lineage among “free people of color” in the U.S. dating back to at least the 1840s, a genealogist told Forbes.

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover one of the most diverse and

Pope Leo XIV marks 56th anniversary of moon landing with observatory visit, call to Buzz Aldrin - Pope Leo XIV has marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the V

Pope Leo XIV's family might've predicted he would become a religious leader one day, ... was elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, making history as the first American-born pontiff.