Can the mayor, a banker and a Harvard prof turn around the city’s African-American weekly?
 

On Wednesday, historian Charles L. Blockson donated about 40 objects from Tubman’s life to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
 

Racial self-segregation is part of a phenomenon called “homophily,” the tendency of individuals to bond with those who share similar characteristics.
 

According to the Gerontology Research Group, she was the world’s fourth-oldest person and second-oldest American, though her family believes that she was actually a year older.
 

Shoshana Johnson recalled her twenty-two days as an American prisoner of war at the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003.
 

Mo’Nique added her gratitude to the first black actress to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel, the 1939 supporting-actress winner for “Gone With the Wind.”
 

‘Music by Prudence’ affecting portrait of Zimbabwe girl’s transcendence.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson entertains the masses.

Wonder received the Commander of Arts and Letters award from French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand.

BART Station shooting, Gates’ arrest, Birthers, …

Group sets out to educate people about black Catholics.

Jay-Z took advantage of his time in the Beltway on Wednesday to visit 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Black History Month ended last Sunday, but in the world of film, black history has a chance to be made just a few days later, during the Academy Awards this Sunday in Los Angeles.