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Howard University and Google have partnered to create a dataset that will improve AI speech recognition of African American ...
The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program now has four African-American women gracing the backside of circulating ...
Nelson Tillis was the first African American to settle in frontier Fort Myers. Family DNA points to the central African ...
There were Chileans in the early 1970s, leftists and intellectuals, who sensed the danger of Pinochet but remained in their homeland and were disappeared. In 1970s Cambodia, not everyone was blind to ...
Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.
Three sites – the Tom & Ethel Bradley Residence, St. Elmo Village and Jewel’s Catch One – have been designated as historic ...
"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.
Historians have uncovered a lost African American cemetery, revealing unique artifacts that tell untold stories of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
African American writers, leaders, athletes and celebrities have spoken in support of Palestinians as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza pushes the number of dead past 26,000 people.