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 ...

Detty December – the time of year when Ghanaians and visitors come together to celebrate African culture has become a ...

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.

Plus: WhatsApp discloses nearly 100 targets of spyware, hackers used the AT&T breach to hunt for details on US politicians, ...

The comedian (whose real name is Cedric Antonio Kyles) married his wife, Lorna Wells, in 1999, and they welcomed two children ...

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.

Those are some of the ideas pitched by Richmond residents for how city officials should spend this year’s People’s Budget — a $3 million fund, chartered by the City Council in 2023, that will go ...

Rossini's humorous opera, “The Barber of Seville," runs from Feb. 22 until March 29 at the Sarasota Opera's 2025 Winter Opera ...