A rt experts believe they have solved the mystery of a portrait of a previously unidentified black solider that hangs in the ...

With '13 Months of Sunshine,' the Portland-born rapper known for sun-drenched party anthems takes inspiration from his Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage ...

Horween, who was born in Chicago, became the first NFL player to reach 100 years old. He and his brother Ralph both played for the Harvard Crimson football team that won the Rose Bowl in 1920. They ...

Michael Twitty's 'Recipes from the American South' is a sweeping, deeply personal portrait of the region’s food, memory and migration.

In the summer of 1970, a young documentary filmmaker named David Seltzer flew to Munich chasing a lucky break. Seltzer had ...

Cheryl McKissack Daniel is set to speak at Nashville's Southern Festival of Books about her memoir, "The Black Family Who ...

Judge Raymond P. Moore discovered his fifth cousin was the pope at the same time everyone else did. The federal judge and Boston native was reading an article in The New York Times about Po ...

I wanted to hear Alvarado’s insights at a time where farmers are pleading with President Trump to stop his deportation ...

At his peak in the early 1890s, Peter Jackson was easily the most famous living Australian in the world. But he was more than ...

Still, Latimore persevered. On Saturday, Latimore will be honored at the Sandrell Rivers Theater in Liberty City, surrounded by many of the people whose life he has documented over the past 50 years.

James W. C. Pennington escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, quickly receiving an education to become a teacher, journalist, activist, writer and evangelical Reformed Christian ...

(RNS) — W. James Abbington Jr., an expert on Black religious music known for his editing, teaching and playing of congregational music, has died at the age of 65. GIA Publications, for whom he worked ...