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AY WELL+FIT Studio, a West African dance and wellness space based in Bed-Stuy, launched its summer class calendar on June 1.
Shameta Jones-Harrell will now lead the Austell Police Department, becoming the first Black woman police chief in Cobb County ...
As it has for the past 20 years, the Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions will hold its annual Juneteenth celebration, but this year’s event will feature a significant change.
Since then, orange has been the color of the gun violence prevention movement.
Marshall Walter Taylor came to hold many names, from "the Worcester Whirlwind" to "The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World," ...
1st Class Jonathan Gabay, who met each other during the African Lion 2025 (AL25) initial planning event held in Agadir, Morocco last September. During a break, the two struck up a conversation ...
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.
This segment will showcase a mix of marching bands, drumlines, and majorette squads ... 1863, enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay, Texas learned of their freedom from the Union Army ...
I even wrote my award-winning memoir, “The Cooking Gene,” tracing my ancestry from Africa to America, from enslavement to emancipation, using the story of African American food combined with ...
Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans view discrimination against various racial, ethnic, gender, religious and other groups in the U.S. Note: Some groups are too small ...
in “Goodfellas” and Fran Drescher’s thick “Oh, Mr. Sheffield” from the sitcom “The Nanny” — is rubbing a lot of Americans the wrong way. Nearly 60% of Americans say they find the ...