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The Sunday after Election Day, Jamal Bryant, the senior pastor at the predominantly Black New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in Stonecrest, just east of...
Scientists found that the dark markings on a species of fluffy wasp reflected less than 1 percent of light.
Since Monday, when a jury found Daniel Penny not guilty in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway, the conversation has threatened...
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
A member of the Ninth Cavalry, one of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiments, he trained West Point cadets in military horsemanship during World War II.
Since the 19th century, a strain in Black American culture has claimed ancient Egypt as ancestor and inspiration. A fascination with that long-ago land has permeated...
I was still processing the election last week when I got to see a new production by Encores! of the musical “Ragtime.” It was sublime. The...
On Election Day, Representative Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, joined some two dozen Black women outside a polling place in Prince George’s County, Md., to celebrate...
Throughout our history, Black leaders have championed the idea of a multiracial coalition that would upend the white-dominated American political system. In “Black Reconstruction in America,...
“Fabulous is the word for Mrs. Nora Douglas Holt,” read the 1974obituary in The Amsterdam News. And fabulous she was: A pioneer of the Black classical...
