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Look where we are right now.” Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

On May 21, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stunned the world by announcing that his government had officially granted refugee status to 48 million African Americans. The decision, made ...

ELSMERE, Ky. — Overgrown weeds, uneven ground and headstones covered by bushes and trees is putting one historic African American cemetery in disarray. “These are all over; you could break ...

He did not bring back “Merry Christmas.” It was never gone. He did not defend faith traditions. He co-opted them. He did not save the economy. He demolished it. And now, amid the debris of his own ...

According to leading genealogists, Pope Leo’s family history reveals a deep and complex African American lineage, with roots stretching back to New Orleans and Haiti. "I looked into some of the ...

Plantation owners were “trying to get more cheap labor, because African Americans left the state,” says Joyce Dixon-Lawson, the former manager of research and genealogy at the Mississippi ...