Black Americans have double the risk of developing multiple myeloma compared to white Americans and are diagnosed at younger ...

While overdose death rates in the U.S. for white people have fallen dramatically, the rates for Black people lag behind.

Important studies like Black Americans and the Missionary Movement in Africa and Black Americans and the Evangelization of ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Raise a glass to Black History Month at Metrobar’s Cheers and Beers tasting. The Black Brew Movement and DC Beer collaboration serves pours of 12 different beers from local Black brewers inside ...

Many underrepresented people who built successful government careers credited those laws and their enforcement with expanding the path to prosperity.

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

In celebration of Black History Month, the city of Las Vegas hosted the 11th annual African American Trailblazer Service Awards at Las Vegas City Hall on Thursd ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

Trump’s return to office on MLK Day feels like a rebuke of everything King stood for and fought for: his personal decency and dignity as well as his ethical, moral and spiritual nobility. Trump’s ...

Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...