Catoctin Furnace's groundbreaking DNA discovery helps a woman find family ties and sheds light on hidden Black ancestral connections.
After an open letter to Jay-Z sought "revolutionary funding," should wealthy Black people be expected to help fund anti-racism causes?
In episode four of Black Folklore in video, host Grant Yanney discusses the flooding of Vanport and the death of a city too Black for Oregon.
Joe Biden’s State of the Union address will highlight Black Americans whose lives have been drastically affected by police brutality.
Black Americans are living a lot longer than they did in the past even though the life expectancy for Black people in the U.S. always falls below the national average. That still doesn’t quite tell the entire story as racial disparities in life expectancy persist.
The state of California might be one step closer to passing a historic proposal that could make reparations for Black Americans a reality in the state.
Researchers found that Black Americans who have spent time behind bars were 65% more likely to die prematurely than their white counterparts.
Here are five ways COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black Americans and how where we were in March 2020 compares to where we are now.
While fodder for comedians and social commentary, many have assumed that these distinctively Black names are a modern phenomenon. Research shows that’s not true.
A breakdown of the hidden history of Black nationalist women’s political activism.
The news that Doug Jones was Joe Biden's choice for U.S. attorney general drew attention to the former Alabama senator's prosecution of KKK members who bombed a historic Black church in Birmingham that killed four little Black girls in 1963.
