This study is Pew Research Center’s most comprehensive, in-depth attempt to explore religion among Black Americans. Its centerpiece is a nationally representative survey of 8,660 Black adults (ages 18 ...

Blacks were disproportionately likely to commit homicide and to be the victims. In 2008 the offending rate for blacks was seven times higher than for whites and the victimisation rate was six ...

African Americans experience stress due to racism, prejudice, and economic disparities. Learn why so many in the black community avoid therapy and what can be done about it.

Sickle cell anemia is congenital, meaning it is present at birth, and symptoms vary between individuals depending on severity. Scientists believe it impacts African Americans at a higher rate than ...

Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of White Americans, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project.

A 2012 ‘Key & Peele’ sketch poked fun of historically black names. Black names aren’t new Many scholars believe that distinctively black names emerged from the civil rights movement, perhaps ...

Every Black History Month, we tend to celebrate the same cast of historic figures. They are the civil rights leaders and abolitionists whose faces we see plastered on calendars and postage stamps ...

Learn about these trailblazing Black women in history including luminaries like Kamala Harris, Maya Angelou, Michelle Obama, Aretha Franklin and Rosa Parks.

Kamala Harris’ election represented an advance in the progress Black Americans have made in recent decades in political leadership.

Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe describe being sexually assaulted by RSF and Arab militia forces.