The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Cross and Boykin, helped to transform psychological scholarship on Black people. In a recent special issue of the American Psychologist on “Foundational Contributions of Black Scholars in ...

McDaniel was the first Black person to be nominated and then win an Oscar. McDaniel lived in Denver and Fort Collins where her legend lives on at the historic Armstrong Hotel in the heart of Old ...

What could be better? And then my neighbor said: “Why do you have a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign on your front lawn when all those people do is kill each other?” My lovely day screeched to a halt. “You ...

The “Black” category includes people who reported “Black” and “Black” and “White”. In the 2021 Census, 89.8% of the category “Black” was single-response answers and 10.2% was multiple-response answers ...

In a year marked by division, the Black Panther director proved that a movie can bring people together THE SHORT LIST NO. 6 PERSON OF THE YEAR 2018 The Smith Rafael Film Center in Marin County ...

According to Forbes, Smith has a net worth of more than $10 billion and is the richest Black person in America. Smith is the first African American to sign the Giving Pledge, a commitment to ...

Some of Black History Month's most important icons are from the Lone Star State. If you don't know the history of how these people contributed to civil rights, broke political barriers ...

The detailed tables which have been made available display unrounded tabulations using IPUMS data. This fact sheet relies on people self-identifying their race and ethnicity in the Census Bureau’s ...

However, the core of Hounsou’s work centers around reconnecting Black people to their African roots. He approaches that work through Africa Reconnect, a series of music and cultural events ...

From activists to entertainers to record-breaking athletes to a postal worker, we are shining a spotlight on the contributions of influential African Americans as we celebrate Black History Month.