It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

It has been 10 years since a mass shooting at a historically Black Charleston church killed nine people and shocked the U.S.

Air India’s AI-171 flight crashed seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad, killing 241 people. Investigators are probing possible reasons that may have led to this fatal crash. The preliminary report is ...

Allen, 75, is not only a trailblazing artist, but also a champion of arts education — on screen (her most famous role is dance teacher Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame and its television adaptation ...