Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored Convention of 1853, where men and women from across the country worked to ...

Through his nonprofit organization, the Alex Breanne Corporation, John Mills helped 50 people build their family tree that would have otherwise been lost.

From the forced labor of enslavement to laborers during Reconstruction to today’s leaders in tech and finance, Black ...

Onijah Andrew Robinson pulled up to Pakistan looking for her man and refuses to leave without being paid for her wasted time.

Marqu – or Margru – was one of the three young girls who were aboard the Amistad. In her portrait, she gently smiles – a glint of a personality that’s persevered despite the trauma of the voyage and ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

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Prostate cancer takes a harsher toll on Black men than other American men. Black men are almost 70% more ... risk and worsen the outcome of prostate cancer — not just being of African descent. These ...

Learner Tien pulled off the biggest victory of his life to headline a parade of 11 Americans moving into the third round of the Australian Open. Tien, a 19-year-old native of Irvine, Calif.

We don't want to be Danes or Americans, says Greenland prime minister Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede discusses President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks about the Arctic island and whether it ...

Yet today there are few African names in the global market for high-end spirits. Some entrepreneurs are trying to change that. Amma Mensah, the British-Ghanaian owner of Reign Rums, and Lola Pedro ...