The number of American children and teenagers in juvenile detention has sharply declined over the last few decades, but as ...

April is often associated with spring and renewal, but it also powerfully reminds us of the struggles and triumphs within ...

Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

Right-wingers obsessed with declining birth rates, including Simone Collins—who wants a future of “genetically selected ...

The history of Graniteville's Black community is being documented through a collaboration between a third-generation ...

The Okahumpka Rosenwald School was one of thousands build across the rural South during segregation to educate Black children.

Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 82, shot “Killer of Sheep” on ...

The night before I got on my knees and prayed. ... I prayed that everything was going to be ok. At 16 years old, you don’t ...

Black women have long been at the forefront of history, breaking barriers, pioneering movements and shaping the world.

It came at a time that I was open to writing my history down,” says the author of her new book, ‘Matriarch: A Memoir.’ ...

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

Meet the ‘race fakers’ — and the people tracking them down - When Rachel Dolezal was revealed to be white in 2015, it seemed ...