At a moment when higher education in the U.S. is under political siege, Black students are applying to college at faster rates.

Black New York isn’t buying it. A slew of black Big Apple residents fumed Friday over mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s claim on an Ivy League college application that he is African American — ...

The linguist John McWhorter on how language around racial identity is evolving. By David Leonhardt and John McWhorter Produced by Jillian Weinberger In this episode of “The Opinions,” the linguist and ...

Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas criticized comments by Robert Alvero during a State Board of Education meeting in Tallahassee.

A discussion can be had about whether a Black person should be called "Black," "African American" or something else. It's not ...

A migration trend of Black people leaving America to live abroad that is being termed the “Blaxit” (“Black Exit”) leap.

Happy New Year! What a year 2025 was. It was a year that was worse for Black people than 2020, and that is saying a lot. However, despite the setbacks 2025 threw at Black people, African Americans ...

An archivist specializing in African American historical documents told a Lawrence crowd on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that ...

An infantilizing charlatan and quack—who owes a huge apology for attempting to pass himself off as African American. That’s what black leaders are calling Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani who ...

Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...

“Waiting for the Hour.” Carte-de-visite of an emancipation watch night meeting on Dec. 31, 1863, where African American men, women and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the ...