There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Anthony Mackie, who stars in Marvel's "Captain America," said in a recent interview that his race has not hindered him from getting roles in Hollywood.

President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

THIS column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first baptism of American ...

Not long after the Civil War, hundreds of Black families lived and thrived in Forsyth County, owning their own land and creating wealth. But in 1912, that development came to a halt after a white ...

Going without insurance hurt all low-income Americans. But studies suggest the drop in Black Americans’ coverage under Trump’s plan outpaced that of white Americans. The rate of uninsured Black ...

My military service saw my allegiance to six different presidents over almost 40 years in uniform. I didn’t always agree with ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens celebrated Black History Month with an informative and inspiring guest speaking engagement on ...

Trump's economic agenda, such that he has one, has been subordinated to his broad — and radical — racial agenda.

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...