Precursor of Black Death Detected in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep Excavated in Russia: Study A prehistoric form of Black Death seems ...

The Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million ...

The Black Death’s gruesome, powerful hold on the human psyche is readily understandable. But why is it that so many people yearn for a return to the cold, miserable conditions that spawned the ...

The Black Death killed so many people it caused immune system genes to rapidly evolve. (Flickr: Leo Reynolds (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)) ...

Byron Black is scheduled to be given a lethal injection after a legal battle about whether a working defibrillator in his chest would cause him pain.

Some celebrity deaths hit the Black community differently. Such is the case with the passing of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who ...