The event, hosted Friday night in New York by Tracee Ellis Ross and Echelon Noir Productions, showcased the creations of five ...

What started as a weekly hair workshop during Black History Month is now being offered as a summer camp for the first time. Textured Treasures gives Black children aged five to 15 a chance to engage ...

Ever since Patrick Mahomes was drafted in 2017 by the Kansas City Chiefs, he has sported his light-brown, curly Mohawk. He ...

Translates by Karen Juanita Carillo | New York Amsterdam News | Word In Black Yadira Rachel Vargas Horta, founder of the Rizos ...

The remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia’s Siberia have been unveiled to the public. Nicknamed Yana, the female mammoth weighs more than 100kg and is ...

This experience sparked her interest in styling hair and braiding, a passion she transformed into a career. In 2018, King ...

Having an Afro or dreadlocks can mean solitary confinement. Meanwhile, going with mandated hairstyles may be life-threatening ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed ...

The memo from Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of reassurance as a call to vigilance. Following President Donald Trump ...

“This cemetery, historically, is a segregated cemetery. So, this is prior to African Americans having access to burials at other sites. It’s very clear that the burials that are here did not ...