According to UW, he will be the first African American to serve as President. “I am honored to be joining the University of Washington and excited to lead this extraordinary public university in ...

Mike Brown, who won the Mutton Bustin’ event, walks off the arena floor with his very large trophy during the MLK Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo at the National Western Stock Show in Denver ...

In 2015 Bryant wrote the poem "Dear Basketball," which served as the basis for a short film of the same name he ... is an American painter who focuses on African American images and uses grisaille ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with influential African American figures, like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Maya Angelou, to piece together their genealogy and disclose captivating facts about ...

On a journey to six cities across the country over the course of seven years, a photographer captured images of the roads that bear the civil rights leader’s name The upper portion of a statue ...

As a native of Roxbury, the neighbourhood that's the beating heart of Boston's Black community, he's working to highlight the city's rich African American ... all of these names [of people who ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West Africa's regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries formally quit the group, forming their own alliance and weakening ...

Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he could not ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: On Monday, 31-year-old Ange Gnacadja rests on cotton harvested in Soclogbo, Benin. Earthquakes in the north of ...

“We become what we see the most. Especially when it comes to African American males. They see a lot of sports athletes, they see a lot of entertainment and it’s something. That is visualized.

“I was the band leader and I had named it the Combined Effort band. I really don’t know where the name R&K African Sounds came from. “It must have been Mabaleka after taking initials of our name ...