"Ever heard of Ted Rhodes? There he is, right before Condoleezza Rice." Harvard historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is paging through the index to the eight-volume African American National Biography ...

At a time when we're having a national discussion about how Black history fits into the American mosaic, we discovered that many stories of Black achievement are slipping away ... going unpreserved ...

Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, a Black religious sister who founded the country’s first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829. The ...

The small, sickly African girl who arrived in Boston on a seafaring vessel in 1761 had already been stripped of her family and her home. She missed her father, who suffered after having his young ...

Jazz legend Teddy Adams and educator, coach and mentor James Green are among eight African American men who have published a ...

Lisa Cook made history when she was sworn in as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors On May 23, 2022. Her appointment marked a significant moment, as she became the first African ...

SEATTLE — The University of Washington has announced who will serve as their 34th President when current President Ana Mari Cauce steps down in June. Robert J. Jones, the current chancellor of the ...

I’m no fan of performative identity politics, and I think racial preferences are long past their expiration date. Yet I don’t think the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani did anything ...