Pope Leo has claimed a historic spot on the cover of the iconic TIME magazine. In a photograph captured by Reuters ...

In a landmark decision, Harvard University agrees to transfer historic slave photographs to South Carolina museum after ...

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people joined a rally on May 3 to show support for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the wake of threats by the Trump administration and ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.

Millions of young people now know their only president to have been an African American. Writing for The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb once noted that “until there was a black Presidency it was ...

This approach is known as “fortress conservation,” and Pearce explain that it typically involves forcing Indigenous people off their ancestral lands, while outside organizations, like African ...

Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, a gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill, died Monday ...

But reversals like the one in Louisiana and actions by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture seem to indicate some misgivings about the president’s order.

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the dozens of enslaved African and African-American people who toiled there when it was Abingdon Plantation. On a grassy knoll between garages 1 and 2, a triangular brick wall stretches to the sky ...

He is the first American pope and the first of African descent since the fifth century. The understated candidate triumphed on the second day of voting in a count kept under permanent Vatican seal.