Many American cities have dire public transport systems, but it hasn't always been this way. How did they get so bad and how ...

Residents face the daunting prospect of rebuilding their homes in this once-thriving historically Black community.

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created ...

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger said Wednesday that she wants to accelerate an analysis for the wildfires that have killed more than two dozen people and destroyed over 15,000 structu ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high ... On the other hand, Detroit (0%) and Los Angeles (-1%) had no growth. And although the Black population declined within the ...

In the 1950s, the money Townsend earned ... discriminatory redlining practices that prevented Black people from buying homes in certain Los Angeles neighborhoods. It’s not surprising Townsend ...

a neighborhood east of downtown LA and one of the oldest historically Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles. A few days later, the Sunset Fire arrived. This fire, burning just north of Sunset ...

Betty Bersinger was walking down Norton Avenue one morning in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert ... The case of Short — nicknamed the Black Dahlia — has both horrified and gripped ...

The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

As of Friday, more than 170,000 people remain ... and Cierra Black told CNN they gathered a list of roughly 640 Black families who lost their homes in the hard-hit Los Angeles suburb of Altadena.

With much of the community of 43,000 largely destroyed, many question whether Altadena will be able to reclaim the diverse character and Black ... Los Angeles. “There’s a lot of elderly people ...