The moral sentiment about reparations rests on these centuries of unfairness. Since at least 1865, when Congress voted to set ...

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Sr Natl Correspondent ...

Census records for Leo's maternal grandparents hint at the complexity of Creole identity and of Black identity in America.

African Americans in Philadelphia are positioned for significant voting power but need to take advantage of educational ...

Espada said his father, along with others, was arrested but did not arrive at Rikers Island; instead, he was sent to Hart ...

The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21, according to a memo issued to ...

To many, Pope Leo XIV seemed a different sort of American, a man who served the poor for decades, spoke Spanish and Italian ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

The assertion that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has been echoed by Trump's white ...

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime ...

When Cardinal Dominique Mambertì appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and uttered the fateful Latin phrase ...

Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. Although President Abraham Lincoln ...