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Black New Yorkers are expressing fury over revelations that socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani misrepresented his racial identity in a college application, claiming he was "black or African ...
Democratic socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim immigrant, identified as both Asian and ...
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but ...
It is not blood alone that binds Black Americans to this soil. America, as we know it today, simply would not exist without ...
If you're Black and you’ve ever travelled, you know the feeling: the stares, the suspicion, the microaggressions. Sometimes it feels like you have to shrink yourself just to move freely. But what if ...
How to watch • What: Finding Your Roots, now in its 6th season on PBS. Its predecessor, African American Lives, aired four episodes in 2006, a special in 2007 and four episodes in 2008 • When: 8 p.m.
What began as the idea to create an instructional book on how to research family history morphed into telling the story of ...
Two of three undergraduate researchers studying the Burke Museum’s African collection stood beside seven floor-to-ceiling ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (KLTV) - East Texas cities filled their streets with cars and floats celebrating Juneteenth. One Black community in Mount Pleasant traces their history back to shortly after ...
Juneteenth KC brought music, vendors, food and culture to Kansas City’s 18th and Vine District, honoring African American heritage and culture.
Like many African Americans, my search was blocked by what’s referred to as the “1870’s wall.” That’s because prior to 1870, the United States Census did not note enslaved and formerly ...