Other African countries have attracted even larger numbers of African Americans. Ghana, which launched a “Year of the Return” ...

A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or ...

The following African-American actresses have left a mark on film history with their exceptional talent: Angela Bassett, ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act prevents discrimination against people with disabilities. Retired U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin ...

"African American technically isn't even what I am," he said. "I'm a Jamaican-born black person but I have taken on this label of African American because of where I live." ...

The cemetery, historically known as the “Old Colored Cemetery,” spans 2.5 acres and is owned by First Baptist Church of ...

Black Americans ages 18 to 49 are two times as likely to die from heart disease than white Americans, and Black Americans ages 35 to 64 are 50% more likely to have high blood pressure, ...

Science historian Peder Anker’s book brings to light the stories of African Americans and others affected by the atomic bomb.

Black Americans’ trust in medical scientists, as well as that for scientists, fell over the past year, as it also did among the general public. Even so, Black Americans’ trust in medical scientists is ...

A Democratic Wisconsin lawmaker is reviving her proposal to create a state task force on missing and murdered African ...

That black Americans, as much as those men cast in alabaster in the nation’s capital, are this nation’s true “founding fathers.” And that no people has a greater claim to that flag than us.