Tyler Perry’s new film “Straw” has reignited old debates around common themes in the filmmaker’s movies and shows.

Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper is publisher and CEO of the AFRO-American Newspapers. This week, she speaks to the contribution of Black women in the world of sports. Photo: Courtesy photo Sign up ...

One writer speaks with an array of women who have been supporting the designer's work in recent years. Ives details the core ...

The final selection will be made by the NFTA’s African American Heritage Committee. Selected artists will be required to work with the NFTA’s graphic team to provide revisions for reproduction.

And this year, for the first time in NFL history, the essence of Black New Orleans – its soul ... originated as a way for African Americans to honor Native Americans who provided refuge during ...

Not having braided hair “creates more of a hassle for everything,” said Sims, who counts herself among the tens of millions of women that regularly spend on the Black hair care industry.

Braiding traditions across the African diaspora both predate and defy the colonial confines set forth to erase and subjugate ...

the South Side produced the city’s first black mayor, Harold Washington; Jesse Jackson, who twice ran for president; and Carol Moseley Braun, the first African American woman to win a Senate race.

There was something about her body, but Mexican actress Eréndira Castorela couldn’t quite put her finger on it.Some casting directors told her she was “too tall” to play a Mexican woman. Others ...

The woman said she now suffers from panic attacks and physical trauma from the eerie ordeal. In an instance of life imitating art, a ceiling collapsed on a woman watching Final Destination at a ...

David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for selling her 6-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith was sentenced by a judge alongside two others ...