Black people in the United States are more likely to develop certain conditions or have worse outcomes from those conditions. The reasons for this are often some combination of genetic, social, and ...

Black Lives Matter protests have opened up conversations about the history of privilege, racism, and the lived experiences and identities of black people in America. Now, the distinction between ...

Black men had been perceived as a voting bloc ripe for Donald Trump to attract after many expressed concerns a year ago about Joe Biden’s re-election efforts. An NBC News poll at that time showed that ...

There are a number of different claims as to the origin of the term Black Irish, none of which are possible to entirely prove or disprove. The term "Black Irish" has been in circulation among Irish ...

Black Americans live in different types of communities across the country. For about half of Black adults (52%), the location where they currently live is important to how they think about themselves.

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Black Americans’ experiences, habits and attitudes around news and information. The main source of data for this study is a Center survey of ...

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, ...

Let the stirring words of Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr. and other famous Black voices move you. February is Black History Month. The commemoration began nearly a hundred years ago ...

Perry is a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution and is the author of the book Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities In August 2022, the Centers for Disease ...

Lines wrapped around department stores, fights over products and crowds so large they poured out of retailers’ front doors used to be par for the course on Black Friday. But in recent years, what ...