Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

Black Americans in Illinois can submit a DNA sample to a university-based project trying to find their ancestral homes, ...

A new survey found less than half of U.S. adults believe Black and Hispanic people face significant discrimination, while ...

People look similar to me or you can say they look like me. It is not like going to Europe or going to some Latin American ...

We should all want discrimination to be less of a problem, but the belief that it is diminishing doesn’t seem rooted in ...

The intricate operation to move and preserve the Jackson Home and other artifacts from the Civil Rights era preceded ...

The African American Class of 1975 from Gainesville High School marked a milestone this past weekend with its 50th class ...

McWhorter: In 1988, when the Rev. Jesse Jackson had a massive influence on the Black community, he basically declared that we ...

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

"There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University.

For more on the demographics of the U.S. Black population, see “ The Growing Diversity of Black America.” The number of immigrants to the U.S. who are Black has been growing in recent years (10% of ...

My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a ...