A new study finds the genetic backgrounds of people in the U.S. are "highly complex" and may differ from their self-defined ...

The identity of America’s largest ethnic group has long seemed cut and dried. But new data is challenging the conventional wisdom.

Members of African ethnic groups in Sudan’s Darfur region appear to have been rounded up by members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and other Arab militias, according to videos and ...

The International Criminal Court has “reasonable grounds to believe” war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed, ...

The history of the coastal communities of east Africa shows how ethnic groups and their languages were shaped.

Certain racial and ethnic groups -- like African Americans, Hispanic people, and others -- are disproportionately represented in groups with lower socioeconomic status.

Afrikaners are a White ethnic minority in South Africa and once ruled over the country during apartheid. President Donald Trump says they are facing descrimination and signed an order in February ...

Members of African ethnic groups in Sudan’s Darfur region appear to have been rounded up by members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and other Arab militias, according to videos and ...

There are competing notions that colonial governments imposed "tribal" or ethnic identities on African people in the 1900s or that ethnic identities are as old as the languages that people speak.