The festival, launched by Courtney L. Branch and Noel Braham to honor the legendary Oscar Micheaux, celebrates its sixth ...

A 20-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. A 20-year-old woman was transported to a local hospital in serious ...

As soon as WMOT’s Roots Radio format was up and running eight years ago, the station leaned hard into Americanafest. This ...

A New York City mural honoring ancient and modern figures in medicine could end up in pieces if it can’t find a new patron ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, is the oldest, and one of the few surviving, majority-Black incorporated towns in the U.S. Archaeologists ...

How we do research matters just as much as what we do. Understanding something as complex as human evolution in Africa ...

One of the researchers described the circumstances that led to the discovery as “serendipity.” This year’s prestigious Lasker ...

Brooklyn, Illinois, holds a unique distinction -- being the “oldest known Black town” in the United States. This dig hopes to shine a light on that history.

With the admissions data released last week, it seems almost certain that the number of Black students in Harvard’s Class of ...

For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White Americans, while many of the inspiring ...

When exposed to terms common in different racial dialects, large language models make racist assumptions about people from ...

The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.