A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

Planting People Growing Justice Bookstore in Minnesota inspires change through books. The Black woman-owned enterprise is a ...

Black Press Day celebrates 198 years of African American publishing and storytelling, with a call to action for truth, ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Over 30 million years ago, monkeys crossed the Atlantic on rafts. Researchers believe they made the 1,000-mile journey on ...

In addition to giving Black individuals and families a place to stay during segregation, the inn hosted famous guests such as jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

Trauma creates overwhelming feelings of vulnerability and helplessness that cannot be cognitively processed into a meaningful ...

A Mississippi man cut his way through thickets of thorns in search of lost Black graves in an all-but-abandoned town.