Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, now in second year, aims to build connections between Lawndale's African-American community and city's Jews who used to live there

'Have we reached the mountaintop? Not by a long shot,' one leading activist says on spot where hundreds of thousands gathered in 1963

When education was segregated and authorities barely funded Black students, Julius Rosenwald gave millions to form Rosenwald Schools; new movement eyes national park in his memory

With just three artworks, upcoming installation feels like a 'personal shout of anxiety,' says curator Nirith Nelson, who hopes art will speak to Israelis of Ethiopian descent

'If you send one or two students to start, you are changing their lives,' says president of South Carolina State University, who joined recent trip of historically Black colleges

As Biden administration mulls updating racial and ethnic categories for first time since 1997, some want separation of Black from African American, or South Asian from East Asian

Outlets ax Scott Adams' long-running comic after he defended earlier comments advising white people to 'get the hell away from black people'

Scandal following aired recordings could have broader legal and political consequences

Performer broke through stereotypes for Black women on television in the 1960s and shared 1st interracial kiss on a US show with William Shatner’s Captain Kirk

Group endorses 5 Black Democrats who have positions that are friendly to AIPAC, and is spending heavily to defeat Rashida Tlaib, Israel’s most strident critic in Congress