The African American Studies program is an interdisciplinary program examining African life and culture, both on the African continent and the diaspora. As a student, you will learn about the African ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

How did the United States elect an African American president? Why is there a disproportionate concentration of African American men in state and federal prisons? How are African American women ...

Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music ...

Prof. Faith Smith been named a W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. She will be working on DreadKin, a book-length study of ...

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The gains have not been evenly spread. To determine where African-Americans are faring the best economically, we evaluated America’s 53 largest metropolitan statistical areas based on three ...

ACS celebrates the achievements and contributions of African Americans who overcame great odds to pioneer some of the most important discoveries and developments in our history.

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Hanson, Jr. spotlights the life and legacy of the late Julius Whittier, the first African American football scholarship recipient and letterman at the University of Texas at Austin, with insights ...

Willow Smith is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2007, starring alongside her dad, Will Smith, in I Am Legend. In 2010, she released her hit single "Whip My Hair," which peaked ...

Big improvements planned for Harry Reid Airport in Las VegasPlans unveiled earlier this week call for 26 additional gates in a more efficiently designed Terminal 1 as well as improvements..