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 ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content.

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

The African American Museum of Dallas is hosting its yearly Freedom Schools, teaching Black history to North Texans. Students learn about prehistory Africa to ...

Living abroad can offer Americans a lower cost of living and higher quality of life, say Black expats.

Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenge played out in court have now ...

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 frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and African American on his college application, a report claims.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.

During Black History Month, consider events to enrich your understanding of the Black experience. From left, a cooking class in Omaha, Nebraska; a lecture at the National Museum of African American ...

Black American Sign Language is distinct from American Sign Language—and it developed because Black Deaf students were segregated in their own Black schools for the Deaf.