Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the ...

Their leader, Henry Berry Lowry, gave an interview while imprisoned in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1889, in which he described his ancestry as a mix of Portuguese and African instead of Indian.

Gang warfare was not dead even then, though many people were. Just over five years earlier, riots and clashes broke out between the city’s Puerto Rican community and the police and went on for three ...

Do beers by the beach for 365 days a year on free land sound like your thing? Well, this area might be for you. However, locals warn that island living "isn't for everyone".

Hussaini, who was named Wednesday as the new Aga Khan, watches with his children the coffin being placed in a hearse during the funeral of Prince Karim Al-Huss ...

At the Morgan Library & Museum, an exhibition looks at the museum’s first director, whose remarkable career broke prejudicial ...

The author said he had read about Sambhaji's torture — "many accounts indicate Aurangzeb did far worse than what was shown in ...

Belle Marion Greener became Belle da Costa Greene — the “da Costa” a subtle claim to her Portuguese ancestry. When banking magnate J.P. Morgan sought a librarian in 1905, his nephew Junius ...

Belle Marion Greener became Belle da Costa Greene – the “da Costa” a subtle claim to her Portuguese ancestry.

Julia Wendell, a Polish woman who recently claimed to be Madeleine McCann, has released new DNA test results that contradict ...