Allen, 75, is not only a trailblazing artist, but also a champion of arts education — on screen (her most famous role is dance teacher Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame and its television adaptation ...

The Asian needle ant packs a sting that can be potentially deadly. Here's how to spot it and the necessary steps to take if you've been stung.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed, two years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

A statistic featured in Ad Council public service ads obscures the fact that it’s true for teens, but not children.

The white crosses are staked in the ground on an otherwise barren hillside on the edge of a farm, each one standing as a ...

President of the Lexington NAACP chapter, Whit Whitaker, said the decision not to invite President Trump comes amid the several lawsuits the NAACP filed during the president’s second term.

It has been 10 years since a mass shooting at a historically Black Charleston church killed nine people and shocked the U.S.

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Wesley Barnes, 55, a Gulf War veteran, has battled chronic pain and PTSD since his exposure to sarin gas overseas. After leaving the Army in 1994, he spent years dependent on prescribed opiates.

Mother Emanuel AME Church held an Ecumenical Service to reflect through prayer and fellowship on the nine members killed 10 years ago in a targeted mass shooting.