All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census ...

U.S. President Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage Thursday by abruptly firing Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden with a ...

The first Black woman to lead the Library of Congress was fired by email. Critics say the move is part of a broader war on truth, books, and history.

DEI initiatives were dividing a Great Lakes city years before President Donald Trump began targeting the programs.

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an ...

The country's first Black and female head of the Library of Congress had just one year left of her term before she was fired by the Trump administration ...

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Hayden, who was confirmed to lead the world’s largest library in 2016, faced scrutiny from a conservative nonprofit, American Accountability Foundation (AAF), that called for her ouster.

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CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New ...

Black people live different lives than other Americans, and Black communities occupy alternate realities. It’s like a ...