Elegance, education and purpose came together as Baltimore leaders, philanthropists, educators and supporters gathered for the 2026 UNCF Baltimore Mayor’s Masked Ball, an evening that made clear the ...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. The latest ...

A new analysis finds insurance costs 16 percent more in Black neighborhoods — and the gap persists even after researchers account for risk. For Black homeowners, protecting the family home can come ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two separate mass shootings in South African townships within hours of each other have left at least 27 people dead, police said on Sept. 27. South Africa has struggled ...

Recently, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote an essay in The New York Times Magazine that has stayed with me. She reflected on a choice she and her husband made ten years ago about where their daughter would ...

The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said on Feb. 10, the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped, warning that ...

Application process for 2026 event has begun for teens from across the United States. Mentorship program with all-expense-paid experience aimed at fostering the dreams of high school students from ...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic spiked in the 1980s, resulting in the death of over 100,000 people from 1981 to 1990, making an irreversible mark on our world from a social, medical, and political perspective.

(Black Press USA Wire) – Fifty summers ago, in 1976, journalist and author Alex Haley published his masterwork, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” The timing was exquisite: As the nation ...

School resource officers (SROs) and zero-tolerance policies have long shouldered the blame for the disproportionate introduction of Black and disabled students into the school-to-prison pipeline. "I ...

According to a Nielsen report entitled, “The State of the African-American Consumer,” African Americans have a buying power of more than $1 trillion, which is nearly equivalent to the GDP of the 15th ...

Baltimore has served as home base for most of April Ryan's life. The award-winning reporter, author and White House correspondent is a proud graduate of Morgan State University. But for Ryan, who was ...