Cornish was Black. He likely didn’t know that the hospital had been founded two years before as Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the nation’s first integrated hospital, a haven where ...

Paige Wester, who lives in Newcastle, stirred up an online storm after calling out the everyday British foods she claims ...

Oops! The planned National Garden of American Heroes accidentally serves to highlight the importance of welcoming ...

Working on the Homefront, 1942-45" exhibit features about 50 photographs of workers at Grumman, Sperry, Republic and Liberty.

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, the share of college applicants who are Black or Hispanic has ...

Assembly Bill 7, which would allow colleges and universities to give preference to students who are descendants of slavery, ...

If the Emancipation Oak could talk, it would surely have stories to tell about the promise of education and a woman who broke ...

American woman to hold the rank of sergeant major in the Army during 1972, had a community park in Edgewood named after her.

The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival will feature appearances by Issa Rae, Dwyane Wade, Debbie Allen, ...

This week the Democratic front-runner for mayor of this city, Zohran Mamdani, was in the news again for his foreign-policy ...

Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call ...