During the workweek, Stocks is executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, a group that documents and disseminates the African American history of a state that’s 87 percent white. On weekends ...

DNA samples led to the identification of the unknown victim as Larry Eugene Parks, whose body was found in July 1980 along Oregon’s Interstate ... of people - many black and Afghan refugees ...

Malone is Afro-Filipino, but he was adopted by Black parents. He grew up in a small Kansas town, he said, and was raised in a “traditional Black household” in a majority-white community where ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature ...

At the same time, as more white settlers arrived over the Oregon Trail, the newcomers not only brought their own prejudices with them, they passed discriminatory laws against black people.

For many interior designers, the powder room offers a rare opportunity to make an unapologetically bold statement. “I see the ...

VATICAN CITY — White smoke poured from the chimney of the ... On Wednesday night, the black smoke of the first ballot poured out of the chapel chimney just after 9 p.m., about 4.5 hours after ...

Mizzou has decided it wants to be the Oregon of the Midwest ... The Aggies have tried a white version, a black version and a version with a state of Texas outline. Last year, they had "Aggies" in ...

The Penn State Nittany Lions announced on Thursday that their annual 'White Out' game has been scheduled for Sept. 27 when ...

Penn State ’s White Out is against Oregon, and fans are rejoicing. The White Out, an iconic spectacle in the sport, is ...

Johnson also noted, "A stereotypical association of the colour of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative) — lies behind the use of the two contrasting smoke colours." Over the years ...