After the COVID-19 pandemic devastated Black communities throughout the United States, there’s finally a touch of good news. The Centers for Disease Control recently released new data showing that ...

Racism is a widespread issue in the United States, resulting in disparities including access to healthcare, life expectancy and homicide rates for Black men. Despite average life expectancy among ...

A groundbreaking digital exhibition and documentary about Black identity debuted during Soul Basel and Miami Art Week via The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD).

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 rise was mainly due to the waning pandemic, ...

As we mark Black History Month—100 years after Carter G. Woodson inaugurated Black History Week in 1926, and as the organization he founded reflects on a century of commemorating Black life—I find ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee's new memoir, A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America, is part history, and part personal. He traces the bloody ...

This story is part of AL.com’s “Season of Change: 1963″ series. Hundreds of photographs fill the childhood home of Lisa McNair and her sister, Kimberly McNair Brock. The pictures, shot by the late ...

Juneteenth is not just a moment frozen in history. It is a vibrant, living celebration that resonates with the ongoing journey toward freedom and equality. Juneteenth is a vibrant, living celebration ...