For decades, spirometry tests have classified lung function differently for Black and White patients. New research explains ...

Black people made up about 75% of public transportation riders. Instead of using city buses, they walked, formed car pools and used Black-owned taxi services. The boycott ended on Dec. 20, 1956, when ...

Efforts to open a separate school in a predominantly black section of Sheffield in the early 1900s led to a boilover of ...

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

New analysis from demographer Richard Alba indicates that 1 in 8 U.S. children are mixed-race.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...

Morton was a physician and naturalist who lived in Philadelphia from 1799 until the end of his life in 1851. A lecture he delivered to aspiring doctors at the Philadelphia Association for Medical ...

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Devon Blackwell’s short documentary explores how her great-grandparents lost the house they had owned since 1892, and the ...

Wong said most are familiar with the tragic death of George Marshall Clark, who in 1861 became the city’s first lynching ...