Thurgood Marshall came to rural Hillburn, launching the effort to desegregate American schools that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.

A 12-foot bronze statue of an anonymous Black woman has become a lightning rod in a fraught American debate about race, ...

The Episcopal Church's double standard on illegal immigrants and Afrikaner refugees reminds me why I left The Episcopal ...

Before blacks and whites marched together to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, to hear the Reverend Dr Martin Luther ...

Black TikTok users and redheads amplified a viral post asserting that gingers are Black, which some caution is shortsighted.

Varia Alston, a 21-year-old junior at McDaniel College, became the first young adult to receive the Unsung Black Catholic Woman Award from Baltimore’s Historic St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. The ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion played a crucial but overlooked role, clearing a backlog of millions of pieces ...

The study presents an early Christian enclave and an African family, most likely, that called the Negev desert home.

The AFRO recently spoke with experts and mothers who emphasized the critical need for culturally informed, compassionate postpartum care to support Black moms. With higher maternal mortality rates ...

David Goldblatt’s photographs, on view in a brilliant retrospective at Yale, exposed the moral rot of apartheid while ...

South African scientists have identified two new breast cancer genes -- RAB27A and USP22 -- in Black women, marking the first GWAS of its kind on the continent. This breakthrough highlights the need ...

President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to hold talks at the White House next week.