Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S. District Judge Damon Keith ruled that the city had intentionally targeted ...

A local historical group is documenting the African American presence in this county from its founding in 1759 to the Jim ...

Black men saw their unemployment rate spike to 6.9% from 5.6% in January, bucking the overall unemployment rate trend for the ...

The battle over Alabama's congressional map is set to continue as a key redistricting trial, Caster v. Allen, begins Monday.

When you think of the United States, a few things come to mind: Hollywood, Disneyland, New York, the Grand Canyon, NASA, Las ...

Two Black voters are arguing that state lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act by “cracking” a majority Black Senate ...

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

When you've been working with people of different nationalities for some time, you've probably noticed that Americans are full of flattery before ... Originally published in English in 2014, The ...

Exceptional World Bank Group-African Development Bank Collaboration to Connect 300 million People to Electricity by 2030 Dar es Salaam Energy Summit to Chart Pathways for Energy Transformation ...

More than half the population ... Eastern or North African. In Wayne County, which encompasses the inner-ring suburb as well as Detroit, nearly 8% of the population is Arab American — the ...

U.S. Black population or total Black population refers to the population of Americans who self-identify as Black in the United States. This includes those who say their race is only Black and that ...

(The Black Hispanic population is not the same as the Afro-Latino population.) You can also read our updated fact sheet about Black Americans. How we did this This analysis, conducted ahead of Black ...