One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...

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

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

Opoku's family moved into the Trumbull Park Homes in the '50s, where they encountered hatred from white neighbors and where ...

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

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

In 1975, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more ...

People of color have different experiences with polyamory than their white counterparts. Here are their stories.

Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage has been hiding its largest Easter egg in plain sight: In the Young Sheldon spinoff, Georgie ...

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

From 1969 to 1972, 12 astronauts walked on the surface of the moon, but ever since then we haven't sent anybody back. Obviously, the space program has continued, so why have we given up on sending ...

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 ...