"There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University.

For more on the demographics of the U.S. Black population, see “ The Growing Diversity of Black America.” The number of immigrants to the U.S. who are Black has been growing in recent years (10% of ...

WASHINGTON — Most Black Americans say they’ve experienced racial discrimination regularly or from time to time, which colors how they view U.S. institutions like policing, the political system ...

Black American civil rights leaders, entertainers, artists and educators in the 1960s and ’70s saw hope for racial uplift in the liberation of nations such as Jamaica, Ghana and Kenya from white ...

Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali and Harriet Tubman.

Black Americans rely on a variety of source types to stay informed, and there is no single dominant source for the group. About four-in-ten Black Americans (41%) say they get news from local news ...

My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a ...

Many African Americans have contributed their quota to world history. Their efforts helped to shape the world and made it a better place. These personalities have been celebrated and are still ...

African American English is an umbrella term for the many different and distinctive varieties of English used predominantly by Black Americans, including vernaculars, or the more everyday ...

Black Americans cope with persistent racism, carry intergenerational trauma, are more likely to live in poverty, experience structural inequities in health care, and in the U.S. have experienced ...

Pew is publishing a major study on African Americans’ attitudes towards religion on Tuesday, the same day PBS premieres a two-part special on the history of the Black church.