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Bob Marley was reaching the pinnacle of his career when he was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer.

There is a ghost roaming the halls of Pickens County Museum in South Carolina and his name is Willie Earle.

How do you get a whole race of people to uplift themselves after years of persecution? This was the very question Colonel Allen Allensworth asked himself before he embarked on one of the most important journeys in African American history: to build the first Black self-sufficient town in California.

From Mary McLeod Bethune to Booker T. Washington, here are seven Black educators who made an impact.

Unfortunately, those with albinism—especially Black people—may encounter discrimination or mistreatment rooted in harmful myths.

How did political parties come to be in the United States? Let's take a look back at their unique history.

The Black Manifesto, spearheaded by SNCC executive director, James Forman, demanded $500 million in reparations from white churches and synagogues across the United States.

Lula “Mae” Reeves, one of the first Black women in Philly to own her own business, created one-of-a-kind and custom hats.

Getting rid of the Department of Education was a Donald Trump campaign promise, and now he's making good on it --- albeit symbolically.

Researchers say the earliest inhabitants of Ireland and some data suggest that the first settlers were Black people.

Filmmaker Sade Sellers is documenting one year with a four-generation Altadena family who lost their cherished home in the LA wildfires.

Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known.