The Black-owned restaurant scene in the Greater Austin area offers everything from soul food to Caribbean cuisine.

The U.S. gave it more than $6.5 billion in humanitarian assistance last year for wide-ranging projects like disease response, ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

“We Need New Names” is NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 debut novel about a young impoverished African girl who eventually moves to ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

The path toward equity in Austin education is long and fraught. Efforts to create fair learning opportunities for all children continue to this day.

President Cyril Ramaphosa defended South Africa's land policy on Monday after Donald Trump's threat to cut off funding ...

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

One day after signing executive orders to impose 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% on Chinese items, ...

One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.

On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe ...