Stafford Berry Jr. is one of the first artisans awarded the Midwest Culture Bearers Award for his African-rooted dance, theater and instruction.

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In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

This week, America is, once again, about to make history. Either it will elect its first-ever female president of African ...

Fourteen people were killed when lightning struck a church in a refugee camp in northern Uganda, according to police ...

By FRANCIS OGBIMI In the first part of this series in which we are calling for an economic summit now rather than constitutional conference, because: Our research revealed that all the rich and ...

You may have wondered if that delicious roasted fowl that graces your Thanksgiving table is somehow related to the country that shares its name. Wonder no more!

Advice that speaks to all of us Michelle Obama needs no introduction…but we’ll give her a little one, anyway. As the wife of ...

"Peace with nature" was the theme of the 16th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) that ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course next year at Yale University ...

The program's unique focus on texts that explore citizenship, government, History, and culture as a pathway to expand African American students ... and the evidential facts of what occurred ...

Over a recent two-decade span, the U.S. has made almost no progress in eliminating racial disparities in key health ...