The Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force delivered its first report to the community, one year after releasing a major report that outlined more than 30 recommendations for action.

Over the years of exploring the old houses and streets of Annapolis, Md., archaeologists have uncovered a trove of artifacts of early American slave culture

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y., Oct 21, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- African American History Month annually celebrates important events and honorable people of African heritage during the month of February. Uniquely, its celebration, which began in 1926 as Negro/Black History Week and grew to become African American History Month in recent decades, underscores our nation's multiethnic and multicultural ...

During the first world War the Caribbean sent a great many soldiers to aid the British war effort . The British West India regiment fought in Africa and in Europe. They were generally used as advance troops and field attendants, they sustained heavy losses. Many of the troops who were wounded were brought back to ...

Sailors from Africa, the West Indies and India have contributed to the life on board British ships during times of both peace and war

Babymother is one of the few Black British films to receive a UK release of any kind since the 1980s, but even so, it is likely to be better known abroad where it was shown in festivals

Mary Seacole is, without a doubt one of the unsung heroines of British History. She was one of the two famous women who aided British troops in the Crimea.

I recently found a blog of a black teacher from London. She seemed opposed to the idea that black history could solve some of the under achievement problems in inner cities.

The contributions of African-American patriots to our nation’s safety were ignored or downplayed for generations. It has been only during the past several decades that efforts have been made to rectify the injustice

Known for carrying 492 passengers from Jamaica to Britain is a centrepiece of this year’s black history season.

At the very highest levels of American society, the African American is rendered invisible….

Black conservatives have come under fire in this historic presidential election largely because for the first time a major party has nominated an African-American.

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama. After more than two years of courtship, Paul R. Jones donated his vast collection of African-American art to the University of Alabama…

African American poetry developed in a straight, if sometimes discontinuous, line from Phillis Wheatley…..