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US News By Angelica Stabile , Fox News Published March 3, 2024, 6:08 p.m. ET An injured puppy has met her heroes. US soldiers deployed in the Middle East found Tiny Tammy lying in a pile of trash and unable to move her back legs. The soldiers recognized that she required immediate attention — but they were unable to […]
KAMPALA, Uganda — Thousands of Ugandans who guarded U.S. government buildings in war zones are preparing to sue their former employers who they claim failed to pay their agreed wages and cover medical bills, leaving many badly injured and mired in debt. The workers guarded institutions and military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan in the […]
After the Great Migration saw African Americans relocate in high numbers to northern cities to escape racist oppression, 1920s Harlem, New York became a mecca for Black creativity in visual, literary and performing arts. The Harlem Renaissance was rooted in countering racial stereotypes and prejudices through Black self-representation and the movement left a significant and […]
Harvey Matthews remembers spending time in Moses Macedonia African Cemetery as a child growing up in the vibrant River Road community of Bethesda, Maryland. Hundreds of formerly enslaved Black people and their descendants are believed to be buried in the cemetery. But as Matthews got older, he watched developers bulldoze the area, bury the cemetery […]
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Chinese American rapper Bohan Phoenix has straddled both countries in his career. Working with Chinese rappers like the popular Higher Brothers, he has always interspersed English song lyrics with a […]
As one of the few Black women in the corporate offices where she worked, Regina Lawless took pains to blend in. She donned conservative blazers and low-wedge heels and tucked her hair in a wig instead of wearing . . .
10 January 2024, 17:39 Florence Price had her work premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Picture: Alamy
The first warning was a blip, a small anomaly picked up by radar scanning the skies over Ukraine. Within seconds, it became clear that the blip was a Russian ballistic missile streaking in Kyiv’s direction at several times the speed of sound. It was just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 11, and there was no […]
Former law professor and Harvard Law School graduate Winkfield Twyman Jr has claimed the recent attacks on Claudine Gay’s credibility are ‘well deserved’ In a blistering op-ed he argued that Gay has ‘made a career of attacking black scholars’ and should therefore not be protected by circling the ‘racial wagons’ A black former law professor has said […]
By Tamara Shiloh Robert A. Pelham Jr. was a prominent African American figure with a diverse career. Born in 1859 in Virginia, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he excelled in public education and began working for the Daily Post newspaper. In the 1880s, he co-founded and edited The Detroit Plaindealer, a newspaper that […]