MIT professor and author Joshua Bennett speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new memoir and cultural history book, "The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time.

New research links discrimination, chronic stress, and inflammation to higher mortality rates among Black Americans. For years, experts have explored

Chanel Johnson, the first trans woman to graduate with a master's degree at Alabama A&M University, shares her story of authenticity and tenacity.

"Immigrants built this country, literally. So this is for them."

The shooting deaths of white protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis have followed a playbook that is painfully familiar to Black Americans

The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ago to the fact that the achievements of Black men and women were not part of our nation’s recorded history.

President Donald Trump’s remarks about Black Americans and so-called “scams” unsurprisingly went viral on social media, garnering rebukes from critics who found the statement to be unsavory. “I got the biggest vote with Black people. They know a ...

No one ever mentioned Frederick Douglass," a young Black man told The Post-Standard in 1969. "We weren’t told about them.”

Many of Chicago’s oldest schools are named after white men. The first one named after a Black person goes back to the 1930s.

Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a "li