Nelson Tillis was the first African American to settle in frontier Fort Myers. Family DNA points to the central African ...

Learn about the alarming rates of drowning deaths among African-American youth and how the 4M Swim Club is making a ...

Ciara is one of the first public figures to be granted Beninese citizenship under a new law that welcomes descendants of ...

Howard University and Google have partnered to create a dataset that will improve AI speech recognition of African American ...

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

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

Illinois has launched a statewide initiative aimed at helping African Americans recover their ancestral ties to Africa.

"Juneteenth commemorates delayed freedom. In many ways, Black entrepreneurs are still waiting for the freedom to scale, the ...

Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities.

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

The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program now has four African-American women gracing the backside of circulating ...