Twenty-four years ago, Stephanie Tavares-Rance and Floyd Rance had an idea to do a film festival focusing on Black stories ...

Economists say the rise in unemployment among Black Americans could be a troubling sign for the economy at large.

Illinois has launched a statewide initiative aimed at helping African Americans recover their ancestral ties to Africa.

The midterms "will determine whether our democracy still holds on," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement to CBS News.

Black Americans in Illinois can submit a DNA sample to a university-based project trying to find their ancestral homes, ...

"There are black people in every continent who are all over the world," explained Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes, an African American studies professor at Northwestern University.

A growing wave of African Americans are relocating to Kenya, citing the need to connect with their history and culture, or "coming home,” a phrase often used among the Black community.

More Black Americans are moving to Kenya to reconnect with their ancestral homeland of Africa in an act of "reverse migration ...

WASHINGTON — Most Black Americans say they’ve experienced racial discrimination regularly or from time to time, which colors how they view U.S. institutions like policing, the political system ...

For more on the demographics of the U.S. Black population, see “ The Growing Diversity of Black America.” The number of immigrants to the U.S. who are Black has been growing in recent years (10% of ...

African American writers, leaders, athletes and celebrities have spoken in support of Palestinians as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza pushes the number of dead past 26,000 people.