The Smithsonian Institution and other federal museums are now facing pressure to minimize artifacts that explain American ...

Black Americans in Illinois can submit a DNA sample to a university-based project trying to find their ancestral homes, ...

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

A new survey found less than half of U.S. adults believe Black and Hispanic people face significant discrimination, while ...

People look similar to me or you can say they look like me. It is not like going to Europe or going to some Latin American ...

McWhorter: In 1988, when the Rev. Jesse Jackson had a massive influence on the Black community, he basically declared that we ...

A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or ...

"There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University.

The event features the best of Black cinema and also shines a light on the community of Oak Bluffs that even to this day serves as a sanctuary.

Black Americans cope with persistent racism, carry intergenerational trauma, are more likely to live in poverty, experience structural inequities in health care, and in the U.S. have experienced ...

For more on the demographics of the U.S. Black population, see “ The Growing Diversity of Black America.” The number of immigrants to the U.S. who are Black has been growing in recent years (10% of ...

My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a ...