Tyrone Laws is one of the people dedicated to making sure stories of the Jersey Shore's pioneering Black scientists do not ...

My grandmother was a colored girl born in Birmingham, Alabama. I can imagine that she was a hard-headed, 'talking girl,' like ...

Like most human traits, blue eyes are determined by genes, and no two people have exactly the same hue. It works a lot like ...

News 8 is once again honoring Black history by looking at health care and the racial disparities many report facing.

A newborn's eye color is usually related to their skin tone. White babies tend to be born with blue or sometimes gray eyes. Black, Hispanic, and Asian babies commonly have brown or black eyes. A ...

The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but ...

Armando Sánchez, 83, was born on the South Side, and those memories help inspire his vibrant, iconic paintings and murals.

Red is the rarest hair color, but to understand why that’s the case, you need a basic grasp of the science. There’s a lot ...

Reflecting on the wisdom of generations past, columnist Justice B. Hill emphasizes the importance of remembering Black ...

And sure enough, the copious text which accompanies Michael Wilkinson’s new work describes it as “a kind of meta engagement with the [still life] genre”. The artist has photographed vases of flowers – ...

(You learn something new every day.) The pigments that give our eyes colour are created by cells called melanocytes, according to Dr Zepeda. As your baby grows, melanocytes continue to develop and ...

Abortion bans in 14 US states correlated with a 5.60% increase in infant mortality, resulting in 478 excess deaths. Non-Hispanic Black infants experienced a 10.98% relative increase in mortality ...