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

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

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

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.

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

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

Over 200 African Americans have been laid to rest in Taylor-Swinson Historic Memorial Cemetery without a tombstone or marker.

During his military service, Charles Thompson, a Black soldier from Amherst serving in the 54th regiment during the Civil War ...

It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the ...