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Other African countries have attracted even larger numbers of African Americans. Ghana, which launched a “Year of the Return” ...
A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or ...
Sade Robinson's mother, Sheena Scarbrough, joined lawmakers in Madison Friday to push for a task force dedicated to ...
"African American technically isn't even what I am," he said. "I'm a Jamaican-born black person but I have taken on this label of African American because of where I live." ...
Althea Gibson shattered barriers in tennis and beyond by becoming the first Black athlete to win major titles and blaze a ...
Dozens of attendees came to the Irene Givens Administration Building for the unveiling of ten new historic markers.
Black Americans ages 18 to 49 are two times as likely to die from heart disease than white Americans, and Black Americans ages 35 to 64 are 50% more likely to have high blood pressure, ...
Science historian Peder Anker’s book brings to light the stories of African Americans and others affected by the atomic bomb.
In 1995, the Akron African American Cultural Association added a health pavilion to the event to offer health and wellness ...
Black Americans’ trust in medical scientists, as well as that for scientists, fell over the past year, as it also did among the general public. Even so, Black Americans’ trust in medical scientists is ...
Black Americans are about evenly divided on whether people of faith have a duty to convert nonbelievers, with 51% saying that religious people have this duty and 46% saying they do not. The view that ...
That black Americans, as much as those men cast in alabaster in the nation’s capital, are this nation’s true “founding fathers.” And that no people has a greater claim to that flag than us.