Starks painstakingly hand-paints extraordinary African-American figurines. It's no small feat for a man with a number of health problems who needs an oxygen machine to breathe.

AP African American Studies will be a class option for some students, on top of traditional AP subjects such as calculus, art history and computer science. The College Board, ...

O n the first day of one of the first AP African American Studies classes ever taught, Marlon Williams-Clark rattled off a list of Black luminaries to see how many his students had heard of.. Only ...