Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little ...

A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history with a woman who ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

After 155 years, the remains of Black New Orleanians, used in a racially based German experimentation, are being sent home.

More than a century ago, the skulls of 19 African Americans who lived and died in New Orleans were collected and sent to ...

Current health statistics data demonstrate striking disparities, which are most evident between African American patients and their white counterparts. This disparity is greatest among male ...

Look where we are right now.” Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, enslaved Africans and African Americans in British North America and the United States staged hundreds of revolts. Fed by a longing for freedom and ...