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After nearly a decade on Monroe Center, the Grand Rapids African American Museum & Archives is preparing to relocate and ...
What does it mean to love a country that doesn’t always love you back? Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album opens with “American ...
"In some ways, the 14th Amendment is the original articulation that Black lives matter," says civil rights attorney Damon ...
Get the full Kumbaya lyrics plus details on its folk origins, first recordings, and cultural importance in music and history.
The Grand Rapids African American Museum & Archives, known as GRAAMA, announced Wednesday that it will be moving locations.
Jessica Hyatt says now that she's surpassed 2,200 points and is among the top 30 female chess players in the country, she has her sights on becoming a chess grandmaster next.
Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call themselves simply African. To the extent that “African American” was ...
By Mitti Hicks Black Americans are more likely to get pancreatic cancer than any other racial or ethnic group, according to data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program ...
Black male enrollment at HBCUs is at a 50-year low. This essay explores how the loss of Black teachers after Brown v. Board ...
The Texas Black Invitational Rodeo at Fair Park showcases professional Black cowboys and cowgirls with live competitions, ...
The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take ...
As Bowman sparred with Republican Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, he drew a link between recent acts of racial and political violence and rhetorical attacks against ...