Pope Leo XIV's background tells the story of complicated racial identities in the U.S., multiculturalism and Black Catholics ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

Washington’s Black Lives Matter Plaza stood as a place to mourn, celebrate, argue and ultimately renew the nation’s ...

Material history, including at places such as Nottoway, has messages for people studying Black history.

Harvard University student Prince Williams has long suspected that his school’s administration has been watching him closely.

We are honest about the conditions that we're facing, but we are not hopeless about what we're facing,' said Bishop W. Darin ...

Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, famously stated that although she has a mother who identifies as a Black woman, she had never been treated like a Black woman. That held until she ...

And the family did not identify as Black ... Church in this French-settled community provided a space where all people could come together to worship. “For all of the population – free White ...

It's not fair to roll out the red carpet for Afrikaners who lack legitimate asylum claims and block all other immigrants from ...

His papacy faces urgent questions about the church’s direction ... and it tended to deal in black and white, with myriad restrictions imposed upon any person of color. Image The pope’s ...

Black smoke indicates ... alliance via Getty Images. picture alliance When the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel spouts white smoke, it means that the Catholic Church officially has a new pope.