and a Black presence in elite institutions was exceedingly rare. By the time Harris first won elected office in 2004, in contrast, she had settled in San Francisco, a city with a small and ...

It was these drawbacks that led Stuart Semple to create his own incredibly black paint. Over the years, he’s refined the formula and improved its performance, steadily building a greater product ...

In the first year after the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling, Black enrollment at elite schools is trending down. With the first year’s data since the Supreme Court ruled that ...

The expression "in the black" is used to refer to a company's profitability and current financial health. A company is said to be in the black if it is profitable or, more specifically ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that v ...

The Black experience isn’t always well represented in Hollywood, but the best Black movies on Netflix right now are well-curated in Netflix’s Black Stories collection. However, like every ...

Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins and his fan club in a jam session, 1940s-50s. Photograph by Mitchell Studios. Gift of W. Allen Taylor, son of "Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins," The First Black Disc ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...

The first freshman class is entering college since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year — and multiple elite colleges have already reported a decline in Black student ...

At other schools, the picture is murkier. By Anemona Hartocollis and Stephanie Saul A drop in the share of Black first-year students at two elite colleges this school year has provided an early ...