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Massachusetts officials and civic leaders, concerned by the Trump administration's potential erasure of history, honored ...
Among the newly-designated landmarks are the home of L.A.'s first Black mayor, a Pacoima barber shop and a historic LGBTQ+ ...
Howard University and Google have partnered to create a dataset that will improve AI speech recognition of African American ...
"Juneteenth commemorates delayed freedom. In many ways, Black entrepreneurs are still waiting for the freedom to scale, the ...
The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program now has four African-American women gracing the backside of circulating ...
Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.
Nelson Tillis was the first African American to settle in frontier Fort Myers. Family DNA points to the central African ...
"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.
Visitors celebrated African American heritage in downtown Altoona to learn more about the history in Blair County. Hundreds ...
There were Chileans in the early 1970s, leftists and intellectuals, who sensed the danger of Pinochet but remained in their homeland and were disappeared. In 1970s Cambodia, not everyone was blind to ...
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 ...