South African-born Elon Musk has been in the eye of the storm after endorsing a controversial social media post suggesting ...

The gas furnace was more convenient and safer than the traditional method. It also increased efficiency as less manual labor ...

Few people know that a Black inventor named Lewis Latimer worked with Thomas Edison and played a role in improving the light ...

The California African American Museum in Los Angeles hopes to change that limited understanding with its current exhibition, ...

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The Black professional class has supported its members from the end of slavery to modern times by developing institutions ...

Biden attended alongside his African counterparts from the Democratic ... alongside the first time in history that an American president has visited Angola, a former Portuguese colony once allied ...

From the invention of the wheel 5,500 years ago, to the internet's conception in the 1970s, here are twenty inventions that created modern society. The printing press revolutionised how humans ...

There is a common tale that American students hear about the first Thanksgiving celebration: a group of friendly Native Americans welcomed the Pilgrims to the continent, taught them how to live, and ...

Leave no one behind …. It's one of the cornerstones of the U.S. military. But when, after 20 years, American armed forces left Afghanistan, in the eyes of many, this sacred oath had been violated.

For the ancestors of millions of African Americans, this slave market in Massangano, a village in Angola, was likely the place where they were sold into bondage. It was a point of no return.

The implications feel particularly urgent to transgender Americans, whom the president-elect and his affiliates categorically targeted throughout the campaign. "Unfortunately, these individuals ...