Once a haven for Black families during segregation, Green Pastures’ legacy lives on. Green Pastures, nestled in Virginia’s George Washington National Forest, was a beloved refuge for African American ...
For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -University of Wisconsin- Madison’s first research lab in the African American Studies department is collecting data on spaces where Black people thrive throughout the city. The ...
In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of ...
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham conducted a cluster analysis of diabetes in the Deep South to understand how the disease, and its subtypes, are clustered among the diverse ...
A nearly six-decade-old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This year's spotlight shines on the award-winning mother-son duo: Carole Boston ...
The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to white/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to ...
Sanele Ntshingana, PhD student and a lecturer in African Languages & Literature at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has been awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellowship at the Hutchins ...