The sudden advancement in women’s swimwear is thanks to female athletes. Professional women swimmers complained that their suits slowed them down in the water. The streamlined silhouette created less ...

RICHMOND, Va. — For years, Toinetta Jones played the dating game by her mom's strict rule. "Mom always told me, 'Don't you ever bring a white man home,' " recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by ...

A new study found that when Neanderthals and early humans interbred — a known phenomenon between the two species — most pairings appear to have involved Neanderthal males and human females. This may ...

In 1938, the Owls Club, a group of talented Black women in Seattle, Washington, won the first-ever Black women’s professional ...

The San Francisco Bay Times, this year in partnership with the Oakland LGBTQ Center, will present the fourth annual Honoring ...

A sports story that’s almost been lost to history. The Roanoke Black Cardinals played in Roanoke in the 1940s and 50s. They were a semi-pro baseball team, the Star City’s version of the negro league.

As Amy Bertsch read about a historic Virginia trial accusing a Black man of double murder, it wasn’t the highly documented ...

When this research was completed the authors received funding from the W.K.Kellogg Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Labor. When this research was completed ...

When my father died, I inherited hundreds of transcripts from interviews he conducted with interracial couples in Chicago. He ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...

Black female professionals have seen a steep drop in employment over the last year. They are turning to each other for pep talks and résumé advice. By Jordyn Holman When Nneka Obiekwe started a ...

The video has been viewed more than 7 million times on X and has sparked debate, reflecting varying views on race in the United States. It comes as the nation continues to grapple with the fatal ...