The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Silk, a 27-year-old aspiring tattoo artist, posed the question in a now-viral TikTok post Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously ...

Cross and Boykin, helped to transform psychological scholarship on Black people. In a recent special issue of the American Psychologist on “Foundational Contributions of Black Scholars in ...

What could be better? And then my neighbor said: “Why do you have a ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign on your front lawn when all those people do is kill each other?” My lovely day screeched to a halt. “You ...

A man asked people what they wish they had known before getting tattoos in a now-viral TikTok post. Silk — a 27-year-old aspiring tattoo artist who posts on TikTok under the handle @silk.tattoos ...

McDaniel was the first Black person to be nominated and then win an Oscar. McDaniel lived in Denver and Fort Collins where her legend lives on at the historic Armstrong Hotel in the heart of Old ...

In a year marked by division, the Black Panther director proved that a movie can bring people together THE SHORT LIST NO. 6 PERSON OF THE YEAR 2018 The Smith Rafael Film Center in Marin County ...

The 2024 Forbes 400 list has named IT entrepreneur David Steward as the richest Black person in the United States. Steward, the majority owner of World Wide Technology (WWT), has an estimated net ...

"This time, we're covering my arm tattoo because only a crazy person would tattoo a horse on their bicep," she continues, panning the camera to her arm, where the ink has been covered up.

Some of Black History Month's most important icons are from the Lone Star State. If you don't know the history of how these people contributed to civil rights, broke political barriers ...