Gazette journalists covering sports, politics, food, business, schools and health issues in Western Pennsylvania has been ...

Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first Asian or African pope. Despite hailing from 70 different countries, ...

Jim Dent, who has died aged 85, was one of the few black golfers to break through to the main American tour in the days when ...

A new memorial plaque at the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center recognizes approximately 435 Black soldiers ...

A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American ...

Mr. Campbell’s criticism was authoritative in evaluation yet casual in expression. Or seemingly so: His prose was unfailingly clear, consistently conversational, and slightly tart.

Clarence O. Smith, visionary co-founder of ESSENCE Magazine and champion of the Black Women's Market, has died at 92.

Moments before the first of two Sunday services celebrating First Missionary Baptist Church's 180th anniversary, members and guests reflected on the legacy and future of one of the state's oldest ...

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to ...

Mobile native and former United States Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman has died. She was 77. Herman was the first African American to serve as the U.S. Labor Secretary. She ...

A Pennsylvania man who overcame drug abuse and poverty to earn a degree, told his story to a group of high school students ...

This time, Turner added another stop on his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath at the entrance of the ...