In 1988, 19-year-old Jennifer Jones became the first black Rockette when she danced with the iconic group for the Super Bowl halftime show. “It was magic,” said Jones, of taking the field as Chubby ...

For many Africans, discussions about reparations have long been seen as abstract, disconnected from the urgent struggles of unemployment, inflation, and underfunded public services. Yet, at the 38th ...

One of the 10 greatest trees in the world is still holding strong — and with a remarkable tale of strength to pair with it.

An act in 1913 limited Black ownership to just 7% of the land, later revised to 13%. Now, Black people make up 81% of South ...

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The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

With black boxes in hand, investigators are now focusing on the actions of American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter before they collided last week outside Reagan National ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

African American cuisine is a testament to resilience and preserving cultural identity through food traditions that evolved ...

A monument has been erected to honor about 450 Black people buried in unmarked graves at the Taylor City Cemetery.

It is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide, and its impact is disproportionately felt among African Americans. People of African ancestry are five times as likely to ...

(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Upon entering the hearing room in the Capitol, Patel, whose ancestry is Indian, bent down and touched the feet of his mother and ... of my parents but also ...