click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait.

From Oprah Winfrey to Pattie Labelle, look at some of the most famous Black women celebrities over 70 and the legacies they've built.

Charles Pinkney, a 91-year-old local painter and ... Pittsburgh Press’ first full-time Black photographer. He took the job ...

Two young women stared out of the frame at her. One was fair-skinned, the other Black. Misan, a medical student at the ...

The Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center has a new exhibition highlighting the work of Black ...

The Masalit are Black Africans. In September, NPR photographer Claire Harbage and I spent a week talking to more than two dozen women in several refugee camps in Chad, now home to over 600,000 who ...

A decade ago, South African photographer Pieter Hugo came to the Bay Area ... both in physical scale and personal demeanor. A woman clad in a fur coat and curly blonde wig dramatically puffs a ...

Mr. Vance’s wife, Usha, was next to her husband, smiling up at him in an off-the-shoulder little black dress. Not far away ...

Three Black women, all Democrats, have served in the U.S. Senate. Two were elected ‒ Carol Moseley Braun from Illinois, who served from 1993 to 1999, and Kamala Harris from California, who served from ...

Keturah Johnson, international vice president for flight attendant union AFA-CWA, poses by a decades old, outdated poster ...

Homecoming weekends in many battleground states had extra significance this year, weeks before the Nov. 5 election.

Perhaps the most notable difference between the book and the series is the fact that the Starz show introduces Gia, a ...