Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to ...

For people with SCD, hemoglobin S (a mutated protein that transports oxygen) causes red blood cells to become curved ...

Gene therapy technology offers enormous hope for thousands of people battling sickle cell amenia in part because of the Black Panther Party’s grassroots efforts decades ago.

Top media professionals, political and business leaders, diplomats, scholars, activists, and other key stakeholders will ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

A midtown Tucson neighborhood is among the first to use a new state law to erase racist housing restrictions that were ...

The show's last section, Memory, looks at the ways contemporary artists from Africa draw on collective memory to play with, ...

A mother’s love knows no boundaries. She will toil night and day to give her children the best life she could. Her dreams and ...

It is the understanding that as a community, we are growing and we have to able to be part of that growth, part of that ...

CariGenetics aims to increase the representation of people of African descent in genetic research by focusing on the rich genetic diversity of Black Caribbean populations. The organization is also ...

For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White Americans, while many of the inspiring ...

revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans ...