Rising Above Bias to Become the First African American Grand Slam Champion Althea Gibson shattered barriers in tennis and beyond by becoming the first Black athlete to win major titles and blaze a ...

The sculpture will be the first individual statue to honor an African American on the Capitol grounds that currently only includes statues of white men, most with ties to either the Civil War or its ...

A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college application that he is African American.

Democratic socialist New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani once admitted that identifying himself as African American would be “misleading” — despite him ticking that as his race ...

This article is a guest submission from Scott Rifkin, an associate professor at the School of Biological Sciences. This year, in the midst of a pretextual harassment campaign by the Trump ...

The African American Museum, Dallas has named Lisa Brown Ross as its new president and CEO following a nationwide search.

Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes was sworn in as the 77th president of The Florida Bar, becoming the first African American woman to hold the position.

The new trail to Enloe Cemetery near Mingus Mill helps uncover the long-overlooked legacy of the Great Smoky Mountains’ Black residents.

Canceled grants and the administration’s prolonged attack on diversity efforts have dampened museum visits and threatened some groups’ survival.