(The Root) — As soon as ABC aired President Obama’s May sit-down with Robin Roberts in which he gave his personal endorsement to same-sex marriage, the concern-trolling started: Will this stance hurt ...

Tuesday’s Washington Post article examining the response by African-American voters to President Barack Obama’s new Defense of Marriage Act policy reveals what many in the black community already know ...

We've been exploring All Things Millennial in our series "New Boom." Today marriage trends - less than 50 percent of black millennials - born in 1980 - will be married by the time they're 40. Compare ...

Black Marriage Day, celebrated this year on March 22, honors the beauty, commitment, and resilience of Black love. Nisa Muhammad, a scholar and associate dean of Religious Life at Howard University, ...

The issue of same-sex marriage has been a controversial one for Black people, especially after President Barack Obama expressed his opinion on it last spring. The MSR spoke with two local Black ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When the African Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

Miami couple Eleanor and Lyle Gittens have a love story for the record books. At 107 and 108 years old, respectively, the pair, who celebrated 83 years of wedded bliss this year, just earned the title ...

"Activist judges" are at it again. In a scene similar to that in Massachusetts just a year ago, last Friday a New York State Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples cannot be denied a marriage ...

Black Love Matters is a celebratory tribute to Black Marriage Day, an annual observance held on March 26th, dedicated to fostering, nurturing, and amplifying positive portrayals of Black Love.

She was a 40 year old black woman with a Ph.D., ready to find a mate in a city that is only 5% black. One day a tall good-looking black man about her age approached her in the gym. He hadn't finished ...