For years, Kenneth Harris yearned for a place where his dark skin was a mark of shared heritage, not suspicion. Two years ago, the 38-year-old retired veteran found that solace in Kenya, buying a ...

After a woman was allegedly held hostage in an Alabama African braid shop, one African business owner just took to TikTok calling for accountability.

Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States. One of the largest nonprofits supplying blood to hospitals and health centers is urging African Americans to donate more blood.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta yearning for a life in a place where his dark skin color is not a source of suspicion, but a mark of a shared heritage. His ...

South Carolina is preparing to honor another year of power with the release of the 2026 South Carolina African American ...

Even progressive Yiddish journalists and activists who protested anti-Black violence in the South used racist stereotypes.

Prostate cancer in African-American men is associated with specific changes in the IL-16 gene, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The study, ...

New Orleans, LA - In one of the first documented population-based studies of the racial differences in hypertension-related retinopathy, investigators found hypertensive African Americans to be twice ...

Maywood, IL and Stanford, CA - In an attempt to identify possible genes that contribute to the risk of hypertension in African Americans, researchers have zeroed in on two chromosomes6q and 21qthat ...