Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee will work to unite the diaspora as Benin Ambassadors to African-Americans in the U.S.

The following African-American actresses have left a mark on film history with their exceptional talent: Angela Bassett, ...

Althea Gibson shattered barriers in tennis and beyond by becoming the first Black athlete to win major titles and blaze a ...

"African American technically isn't even what I am," he said. "I'm a Jamaican-born black person but I have taken on this label of African American because of where I live." ...

Science historian Peder Anker’s book brings to light the stories of African Americans and others affected by the atomic bomb.

Black American women's plan for an August 1 boycott of African braid shops and stores drains energy and resources from a larger struggle.

Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call ...

Black Americans ages 18 to 49 are two times as likely to die from heart disease than white Americans, and Black Americans ages 35 to 64 are 50% more likely to have high blood pressure, ...

That black Americans, as much as those men cast in alabaster in the nation’s capital, are this nation’s true “founding fathers.” And that no people has a greater claim to that flag than us.

Two African-American Army sergeants, Cornelius H. Charlton and William Thompson, earned the Medal of Honor. The 1960s marked a major transformation for African-American citizens in the United States.

Black Americans’ trust in medical scientists, as well as that for scientists, fell over the past year, as it also did among the general public. Even so, Black Americans’ trust in medical scientists is ...

Black Americans are about evenly divided on whether people of faith have a duty to convert nonbelievers, with 51% saying that religious people have this duty and 46% saying they do not. The view that ...