African-Americans

The reparations task force meets Saturday in Oakland. It may vote to recommend a state apology and payments to African Americans based on years living in state.

Last year, a bill would have directed more funding to the student group with the lowest standardized test scores, which would have been Black students. Instead, the governor is proposing extra money for high-poverty schools, not Black students specifically.

Employees won't be required to disclose their information, but advocates who support this data collection say it's for the Black community's benefit and will shed light on more hidden disparities.

Medical journal study says life expectancy for California’s Latinos fell six years, more than other populations during pandemic.

Tiquette Bramlett is the first Black woman appointed to oversee a winery in a major U.S. wine region. And this year, she will help usher in a new crop of BIPOC wine industry changemakers with her nonprofit Our Legacy Harvested and their inaugural internship program.

Oregon School for the Deaf senior Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris is only the second deaf student to win the state's Poetry Out Loud competition by performing three poems using American Sign Language. He will now represent Oregon at the national semi-final round.

California’s first-in-the-nation task force to identify reparations for African Americans voted to limit eligibility to those who can trace their lineage.

California’s African Americans are dying from COVID at a higher rate now. And they make up a disproportionate and growing share of the death toll for middle-aged Californians.

The history of African-Americans in Oregon can be a bit sketchy. Even today, Oregon's population is only three percent black, and white people have not…

You probably know well the story of the African-American man breaking the color barrier in his sport. But this is not a story about Jackie Robinson or…

Movies about space flight always seem to be strong contenders for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. But a movie about math whizzes who made space flight…

Gertrude Price Wardlow, who moved with her husband to Weed, Calif., in 1920, described the part of town where African-Americans lived as a snow-covered…