Kobe Bryant was on top of the world, but it soon all came crashing down with a sexual assault allegation and court case.

Many prominent historical figures are from the Metro Detroit area. Here’s a list of prominent Black historical figures in ...

Asra Hussain Raza, a Pakistani woman, was among the victims of the mid-air collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a US military Black Hawk helicopter and subsequent crash into the Potomac ...

From Civil War ties to the nation's first private HBCU, Ohio's Black history runs deep. Here's what to know this Black History Month.

Often called the "Father of Black History," Virginia native and scholar Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in ...

Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of ...

Around the United States, colleges and universities are cautiously navigating the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The president’s baseless claim that diversity programs are to blame for a deadly plane crash follows conservatives’ growing criticism of such efforts.

On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar's Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public appearance of their founder ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 world figure skating champions in pairs, lost their lives in the crash. They represented Russia but moved to the US, where they launched successful ...

A new exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will feature photographs drawing on the lore of murder ballads in the South, traditions that shape Black identity in east Texas, relationships of ...