Race & Ethnicity

Started at a moment’s notice in Philadelphia, the grassroots fundraiser has gone national.

A combination of things — access to primary care, chronic health conditions and environmental factors — may be to blame, but researchers still can’t say.

The National Urban League and the Anti-Defamation League announced the partnership Mon. following a tense period for Black and Jewish communities.

Unions say that could disrupt an important role the Postal Service has played in providing generations of African Americans secure middle-class employment.

Many NFL teams are weighing how to tackle racial justice issues in the days since Jacob Blake, 29, was left with paralysis after being shot in the back by a police officer.

Residents are experiencing pain and fear, according to the Urban League president, in a city with a history of oppressing Black Americans.

It's happened with outbreaks going back for centuries: We blame "outsiders." Researchers have theories as to why. Public health groups have plans to stop it.

“We are heartbroken and enraged, but we are steadfast in our demand for justice,” Tanya Mclean, a Blake family friend who helped organize the event, said in a statement.

Boseman’s death left Philadelphians grieving the loss of a beloved Black icon.

Major League Baseball observed a Jackie Robinson Day like no other Friday, with teams celebrating a man who broke the sport's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Kyle Rittenhouse would face a mandatory life sentence if convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, the most serious crime in Wisconsin.

In a historic moment of solidarity across professional sports, a slate of games will not be played Thursday in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

The South’s Defenders Monument was knocked off its pedestal as the Category 4 monster swept through the southwestern Louisiana parish.

The gathering follows Democratic and Republican party conventions that laid out starkly different visions for America.

A century's worth of U.S. statistics finds mortality rates and life expectancy were much worse for Black Americans pre-pandemic than they have been for white Americans.