Nelson Tillis was the first African American to settle in frontier Fort Myers. Family DNA points to the central African ...

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 ...

The Black Freedom Fund plans to expand to a $200 million endowment. It's a move that is rare in philanthropy and politically ...

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 ...

Ciara is one of the first public figures to be granted Beninese citizenship under a new law that welcomes descendants of ...

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 ...

Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities.

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