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Advocates are warning the Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will disproportionately harm Black ...
The 31st Annual Little Miss African American Pageant crowned Paityn McElhannon Queen and Lauren Lawson Princess, awarding $10K scholarships ...
Massachusetts officials and civic leaders, concerned by the Trump administration's potential erasure of history, honored ...
Howard University and Google have partnered to create a dataset that will improve AI speech recognition of African American ...
Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.
"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 ...
"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.
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 ...
Black Americans in Illinois can submit a DNA sample to a university-based project trying to find their ancestral homes, ...
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.