February is around the corner – an annual nationally-recognized reminder to explore and celebrate Black history. This month ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rumaan Alam's “Entitlement,” Ian Frazier's “Paradise Bronx” and Lisa Ko's “Memory Piece” are among 14 finalists for the Gotham Book Prize, a $50,000 award for outstanding fiction or ...

Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...