At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black ...

Kraken guest services manager Patti Brinkley can likely beat you in a courtroom, a martial arts studio, skate figure eights ...

Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...

One Sunday in May 1917, on the first day of services at the newly built First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, the congregation celebrated with a processional and mortgage burning.

Across New York, exhibitions highlighting the work of activists, from the mostly unknown to the iconic, offer hope, ...

Exceptional World Bank Group-African Development Bank Collaboration to Connect 300 million People to Electricity by 2030 Dar es Salaam Energy Summit to Chart Pathways for Energy Transformation ...

As Donald Trump’s return to the White House threatens to reignite public debates about how schools teach subjects like civics and American history, newly released polling shows that many students are ...

Islamabad, Pakistan — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime saw two Americans freed in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California ...

Hundreds of people gathered Monday for the 40th annual Martin Luther King Jr. tribute to hear speeches from community leaders and activists, see music and dance performers and shop at local vendors.

Asian American children are less likely to flourish, maintain regular bedtimes, and have moderate screen time than their White peers, with their parents engaging less frequently in positive ...

not needing to apologize for my boisterous American kids. "We would never do this at home, and yet we're totally fine doing it in a country where they have no local knowledge and they don't even ...