Howard University and Google have partnered to create a dataset that will improve AI speech recognition of African American ...

Nelson Tillis was the first African American to settle in frontier Fort Myers. Family DNA points to the central African ...

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

Historians have uncovered a lost African American cemetery, revealing unique artifacts that tell untold stories of the ...

Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities.

People look similar to me or you can say they look like me. It is not like going to Europe or going to some Latin American ...

"There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University.

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

For more on the demographics of the U.S. Black population, see “ The Growing Diversity of Black America.” The number of immigrants to the U.S. who are Black has been growing in recent years (10% of ...

Black Americans cope with persistent racism, carry intergenerational trauma, are more likely to live in poverty, experience structural inequities in health care, and in the U.S. have experienced ...

African American writers, leaders, athletes and celebrities have spoken in support of Palestinians as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza pushes the number of dead past 26,000 people.