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Henniyah, Helaina and Henri Rivers are 18-year-old triplets from Long Island, New York, who hope to represent their mother’s native country of Jamaica.

A decade ago, Copeland became the first Black female principal dancer in the company’s 75-year history.

NBC News anchor and reporter Morgan Radford's great-grandparents' journey from Jamaica and Cuba to the U.S. spurred her to delve into her heritage in a new way: through fiction.

The "Gay Harlem Renaissance" exhibit at The New York Historical calls attention to the LGBTQ writers, artists and performers of the era.

Residents in the majority-Black city told NBC News they are exchanging one fear — crime — for another, excessive policing.

"The New Book" collects the late poet's final thoughts, revealing "even more" of who she was as her health declined before her death in 2024.

The show, which LeVar Burton previously hosted on PBS, was canceled in 2006.

Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

Shakur, convicted of killing New Jersey state Trooper Werner Foerster, escaped from prison more than four decades ago and lived in Cuba until her death.

From the pulpits of Black churches, pastors used their sermons to denounce Kirk's beliefs that some said conflict with the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Gospel.

Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were wrongly named as suspects in the death of a woman whose husband said they had been shot in an attempted carjacking by a Black gunman.