It’s astonishing how this group has contributed to building a nation and to shaping a culture, leaving such a strong imprint.

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

"I've been homeless before, like, real homeless. Not like, ‘Oh, I'm sleeping on somebody's couch.’ I mean, eating out the ...

Wildlife officials say quick thinking by construction workers helped lead to the bear’s capture.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.

"My hope is that space will be an opportunity for us to come together as a people," Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. says ...

Harvard University has agreed to transfer ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people to Tamara Lanier, a descendant of one of the subjects, as part of a landmark legal settlement ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes she is a descendant ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Albert José Jones is considered the godfather of Black scuba diving in the U.S ... Jones, a Purple Heart recipient and a marine biologist, is surprisingly modest about his influence.

“I’m not an angry Black man,” Green said, via The Athletic’s Anthony Slater. “I’m a very successful, educated Black man with a great family. And I’m great at basketball, I’m great ...

However, after the game, Green seemed to hint that he believes there is an "agenda" against him that he is an "angry Black man." "Looked like the angry Black man. I'm not an angry Black man.