A new survey found less than half of U.S. adults believe Black and Hispanic people face significant discrimination, while ...

Illinois College student Jiech Bel has curated a new Malcolm X exhibit at Jacksonville African American History Museum, ...

Mikal Elamin was sworn in as police chief and Derek Bryant as fire chief in Matteson, the first African Americans in those ...

Black Americans in Illinois can submit a DNA sample to a university-based project trying to find their ancestral homes, ...

Plans to build a $50 million museum in Huntington focusing on the African American community and their contributions to the ...

A Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked a key rule that would have removed medical debt from the credit reports of roughly 15 million Americans, dealing a harsh blow to struggling ...

A Civil War veteran born into slavery in Louisiana is among nine Union soldiers with new grave markers at Greenfield Cemetery ...

A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed ...

Eight African-American Senators made huge impacts on the history of politics. Feb. 1, 2013 — -- intro:The United States Senate has a long history of producing historic leaders, but has ...