The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died ...

Black residents were disproportionately affected by the fire that ravaged Altadena, Calif.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York Times Supported by By Corina Knoll Reporting from Los Angeles ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse ... who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends ...

"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values — that all reality hinges on moral foundations ...

Mark Abramson for The New York Times One woman hoped to salvage her father ... It had been a magnet for Black families in particular. The houses were in a picturesque spot, surrounded by hills ...

The Boston Bicycle Club, the first bicycle club in the United States, is formed. 1949 — Willie Pep becomes the first boxer in the history of the 126-pound class to regain a ...

For men and women combined, “the only age group where we’re seeing actually an increase in cancer risk, in incidence going up, is under the age of 50.” Even though Black women in the US have ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

For the 92% of Black women who voted for Vice President Kamala ... was saying that he was going to send the National Guard into New York City. We had folks saying that the KKK was coming into ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The deaths came after the passenger jet was preparing to ...

The last incumbent New York City mayor to lose — to Rudy Giuliani, in 1993 — was the one-term David Dinkins, who had defeated three-term Ed Koch in a Democratic primary in 1989. Campaign ...