The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

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Irish" descent but research paid for by Democratic Unionist Party in the north of Ireland failed to find any link ...

As Imam Plemon El-Amin stood on stage at Morehouse College in front of hundreds of people, donning graduation regalia his uncle Dennis Hubert never got to wear, all he could think was that Hubert ...

The post-2020 trajectory increasingly mirrors the post-1968 era, when the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. prompted ...

Pope Leo XIV's background tells the story of complicated racial identities in the U.S., multiculturalism and Black Catholics ...

As a child, Obama’s embrace of blackness was facilitated, not impeded, by white people. Obama’s mother pointed him toward the history and culture of African Americans. Stanley, his grandfather ...

On Monday, Donald Trump had a two-hour phone call with Vladimir Putin. The US president is convinced that the Russian leader ...

Mary Jane Patterson be­comes the first Black woman in U.S. History to be awarded a master’s degree. She earned it from Oberlin College in Ohio. 2009—NFL star quarterback Michael Vick is released from ...

The announcement Sunday that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer has some people wondering ...

To historians and archivists, it points to the possibility that Trump’s presidency will leave less for the nation’s ...