Organizers of this year’s African American Cultural Fair & Parade hope an earlier start helps avoid bad weather that hampered last year’s event. “Last year it rained almost four of the five days of ...

Five firefighters from DC, who are all African American women, took a casual photo at their station that unexpectedly went ...

The moment you’re told the dreaded words: “You have cancer,” your life changes forever. A parent diagnosed with cancer goes through a rollercoaster of emotions from guilt and shame to resiliency. “For ...

A panel discussion on the Great Migration and the 9th annual African American Family Book Expo. We continue our look at the new PBS docuseries from Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Great Migrations: A People ...

In the opening pages of a new novel, "Good Dirt," a young girl is playing with her older brother. They've decorated an old stoneware jar, adding a baseball cap, a handlebar mustache made out of paper.