It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Spiritual practitioners fear that legislation imposing prison time for vaguely defined occult services could cast a wide net.

Allen, 75, is not only a trailblazing artist, but also a champion of arts education — on screen (her most famous role is dance teacher Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame and its television adaptation ...

It has been 10 years since a mass shooting at a historically Black Charleston church killed nine people and shocked the U.S.

"It's just a matter of time," a researcher said, before this invasive insect that is an East Coast nuisance pervades Michigan ...

President of the Lexington NAACP chapter, Whit Whitaker, said the decision not to invite President Trump comes amid the several lawsuits the NAACP filed during the president’s second term.

President of the Lexington NAACP chapter, Whit Whitaker, said the decision not to invite President Trump comes amid the several lawsuits the NAACP filed during the president’s second term.

Wesley Barnes, 55, a Gulf War veteran, has battled chronic pain and PTSD since his exposure to sarin gas overseas. After leaving the Army in 1994, he spent years dependent on prescribed opiates.

Mother Emanuel AME Church held an Ecumenical Service to reflect through prayer and fellowship on the nine members killed 10 years ago in a targeted mass shooting.

Southwestern College held its third annual Juneteenth Jubilee on campus today, raising the Juneteenth flag and hosting a celebration filled with music and dancing.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S., but for Black people, cancer signs can show up in unexpected places, and ...