"If equity isn't built in from the beginning, then exclusion is baked in by design," said Raymond Jetson, co-founder of Aging ...

Twenty-four years ago, Stephanie Tavares-Rance and Floyd Rance had an idea to do a film festival focusing on Black stories ...

After the Civil War, even as Reconstruction was failing across the United States, Black Americans in the South faced a choice ...

And, like the Met’s exhibition examining dandyism and Black men’s fashion as a form of cultural power, the Polo Ralph Lauren ...

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

Chicago’s ability to embrace diversity and unity led to the election of its first Black mayor, Harold Washington, powered by ...

Most famously, the acclaimed filmmaker’s 1958 samurai/action-adventure film “The Hidden Fortress” was the primary influence for George Lucas when he made “Star Wars.” In the Kurosawa film, two ...

Reformers like Elizabeth Rous Comstock were not animated by conquest, but earnest—and complicated—charity towards Black ...

Robert Woodson, a longtime civil rights activist, urged the nation to "disregard race in how we judge one another" before it leads to "national ruin." ...

The Economist/YouGov poll was released a day after President Donald Trump announced the federalization of the D.C. Metropolitan Police. Trump’s rationale -- rising crime -- did not match reality; ...

This past weekend was the 30th Eastern Shore AFRAM Festival, and for the past 30 years, the organizers and community members have been pushing their message, “We Are One. ” Acknowledging African ...

The Labor Department's recent report is concerning because Black folks are often the first to be hit by economic downturns in the nation.