The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

This fact sheet relies on people self-identifying their race and ethnicity in the Census Bureau’s 2023 ACS to describe the nation’s Black population. The racial and ethnic categories used in census ...

The following sections detail transition letters dating back to the letter Ronald Reagan left for George H.W. Bush in 1989. Biden to Trump Joe Biden (D) left a letter to Donald Trump on January 20, ...

Netflix’s Black Stories collection celebrates Black cinema and culture and allows subscribers to narrow their search if they’re interested in movies from Black creators and stars. However ...

As a young Latino and white family, we were graciously welcomed by our Black neighbors. The destruction of western Altadena is uniquely painful, as it ends the realization of the dreams of ...

A person walks past homes burned down by the Eaton fire in Altadena on Jan. 9. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) ...

A collection of letters sent between Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne, illustrator E.H. Shepherd and publisher Frederick Muller is to be sold at auction. They were discovered among papers belonging ...

We very much enjoyed the article “Black activists once sought to make new city within Boston: The plan failed, but for some, the message still resonates” (Metro, Jan. 5). However, it gives the ...

I recently watched the video of Robert Brooks, a Black inmate, being shackled, handcuffed behind his back and then beaten to death by what looks to be a group of about 12 white correctional ...

The new logo consisted of a simple black wordmark on a white background, with the letters of the word “Toyota” rendered in a font with unevenly thick strokes and narrow, long serifs at the ends of ...

It should be a day of mourning and, therefore, I will be wearing black. I hope others will do so, as well. May God bless the USA and protect our democracy and freedoms.

Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship on the Atlantic Ocean in 1729, yet he became a writer, a composer, a shopkeeper and a respected man of letters in 18th-century ... I wanted a pre-20th ...