Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes makes history as Florida Bar Association's first African American woman president Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for What to Do with ...

American Isabel Ashanti Gomez, 22, was gunned down by ruthless Mexican cartel members who mistook her father's pickup truck for one belonging to a rival gang, according to reports.

Juneteenth celebrates a milestone in African American history. Do some, in and out of Washington, want to sweep that history under the rug?

"Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California" continues through Nov. 30, 2025 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St., Berkeley.

North Carolina native Bessie Stringfield made eight cross-country trips solo on a motorcycle. She was the first African American woman to accomplish this feat.

But Ann Arbor’s Black community still gathers at the intersection the first Saturday of June to celebrate the city’s 28th Annual African American Festival despite area gentrification, Event ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - A mural honoring African-American history at Dorsey Park has been vandalized with racist graffiti, including a Nazi swastika and the N-word.

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.

Harvard University has agreed to turn over 175-year-old photographs of enslaved people to a museum in South Carolina, ending a yearslong battle led by a woman who says the images include her ...

As a Black woman in my late twenties, I’ve always taken pride in maintaining healthy skin.

There’s no record the new pope ever identified as Black, and he may never have researched his family’s roots in New Orleans.

When Mika Stambaugh went to the dermatologist for a simple skin check, she didn't expect to leave that appointment with a gaping hole in her face.