Coffee shops and independent bookstores are also some of the best places to learn about a city’s local activities. Backatown ...

Sterling grew up in Lake Charles and she has had her artwork displayed in the New Orleans African American Museum and the New ...

The Du Bois Institute, Harvard’s premier research center for African American studies, was born amid a protracted struggle over the structure of the Afro-American studies department.

Columbia University study reveals Black women in Wisconsin face 20 times higher murder risk as state lawmaker pushes for ...

Representation of many of the world's faiths and spiritual traditions has been minimal to nonexistent in the mainstream ...

The Halifax Street Music Festival in Petersburg celebrates 18 years of bringing the community together with free music, food and entertainment, drawing more than 3,500 ...

This year, the organization will honor actor Colman Domingo, costume designer Paul Tazewell, choreographer Sean Bankhead, ...

The missing man, described as an African-American and last seen wearing coveralls with reflective tape, was working on a ...

President Donald Trump announced a travel ban for people from several countries that goes into effect on June 9.

Renee Ferguson, the first African American woman to work as an investigative reporter in Chicago television and a long-time ...

On military bases across the globe, books are disappearing from shelves. Posters of historical figures, like Frida Kahlo, are ...

The bricks in Freedmen's Town were laid in part by formerly enslaved African Americans during the latter part of the 19th ...