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

Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee will work to unite the diaspora as Benin Ambassadors to African-Americans in the U.S.

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

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

"The stamina is lacking and the commitment short-lived," U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, told theGrio.

Rep. Sheila Stubbs (D-Madison) has introduced a bill to form a task force focused on Missing and Murdered African American ...

"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." ...

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

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

Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call ...

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.