Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...

Black History Month, a celebration of Black history, culture and education, kicks off on Feb. 1. Historian and author Carter ...

Britain’s first black woman bishop tells her story for the first time in a new memoir.

Among the gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...

Throughout American history, images of Black women have been symbolized as the mammy, the welfare queen, the Jezebel, the Sapphire — and yes, the tragic mulatto. Meanwhile, the women themselves have ...

King Day at the Dome started in 2000 as a protest to the Confederate flag flying over the State House dome and inside both ...

Below, you’ll find my picks for the best black turtlenecks for women, whether you’re looking for something classic and fitted or a bit more avant-garde. (Though if black’s not your thing ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...

The American Cancer Society's latest cancer report shows both positive and concerning trends: overall cancer deaths are down but the number of women and ... cancers. Black people are twice as ...

Cancer does not discriminate, except when it does. Prostate cancer takes a harsher toll on Black men than other American men. Black men are almost 70% more likely than white men to develop prostate ...