It is named after the legendary African American folk hero John Henry, who worked himself to death in a contest against a steam-powered drill. In the folk tale, John Henry exemplifies how people may ...

I feel a deep sense of anguish and anger at what Donald Trump is doing to wreck the American university system. Trump’s ...

Who‘s speaking? Kelsa L. Zereski, president of Reliant Foundation Inc., a charity that offers mental and behavioral health support to residents of the Central and MetroWest regions of Massachusetts.

A meeting between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trump Wednesday became tension-filled when ...

Drag balls in the 19th century, the Black Pearl Awards and, of course, the High Heel Race. Why might Washington, a famously ...

For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...

The Trappists monks at Mepkin Abbey planned the new Meditation Garden of Truth and Reconciliation after discovering unmarked ...

Among their favourites of the recently released are a very popular war film, an Oscar-winning dark comedy, and a cult ...

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

And when he brought on the gospel singer Yolanda Adams to fill in for John Legend on the Oscar ... just that there might never be another African American president of the United States.

John Wayne once shared his all-time favorite movies, which included Gone With the Wind, The Searchers, and The Four Horsemen ...

Ramaphosa invited John Henry Steenhuisen, South Africa’s minister of Agriculture who is white and from an opposition party, ...