There will be a special choral prayer service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, commemorating the Rev. Absalom Jones, who was born into slavery and became the first African ...

Students are working to build a database of names and biographies of 800 enslaved people who belonged to the Cobb-Lamar family ...

Guests dressed in African and Caribbean-style attire walked the runway and enjoyed food and festivities at the Indaba African ...

It was on this day in 1869, Robert Tanner Freeman made history by becoming the first African-American to earn a dental degree in the United States.

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

Black Milwaukee recently kicked-off Black History Month in style dressed in African and Caribbean-style attire, walking the runway, and enjoying food and festivities at the 6th annual Indaba African ...

Fake It Until You Make It' centers on a rivalry between two women heading non-profit organizations vying for a federal grant.

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Special to The OBSERVER - Grammy-nominated jazz virtuoso Braxton Cook returns to Sacramento for a special performance at the Mondavi Center, a benefit concert supporting local students.

David G. from Yelp has a deep appreciation for the culinary delights of the South. The Southeastern U.S. is a treasure trove of delicious food that could take a lifetime to fully explore. While many ...

I traveled to Liberia, an African ... As an American, we eat from our own plates, but in a lot of Asian countries, particularly China, you have a shared eating situation. It wasn't like ...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday in 1986 ... Disney When the movie, based on the stories by Joel Chandler Harris (that were “borrowed” from traditional African-American folktales), premiered in Atlanta ...