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A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or ...
Other African countries have attracted even larger numbers of African Americans. Ghana, which launched a “Year of the Return” ...
The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival is back for its 23rd year, celebrating Black filmmakers, actors and ...
The Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival began with a post on a Yahoo! chat room. In 2002, co-founder Stephanie ...
"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.
A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of slave families are ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Tuesday afternoon, the Nebraska Commission on African American Affairs held its first meeting since the results of an audit ...
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 ...
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 ...