White T-shirts get a lot of attention, but let’s not forget their equally versatile counterpart: the exceedingly wearable, deceptively simple black T-shirt. It’s a staple you can wear to work ...

For example, the wings of the African black heron (Egretta ardesiaca) are used not only for flight, but also to form an umbrella, casting a shadow over shallow water, where fish tend to congregate ...

When a person has black or dark-colored mucus, they may have inhaled potentially harmful pollutants. Coughing up black mucus may also be due to an underlying infection or condition. Mucus serves ...

“Makeshift stoves” used by homeless people are the likely cause of the blaze that tore through an industrial building at the former Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City last month, fire ...

The similarities in the two assaults, almost six decades apart, were uncanny. Both youths were Black, both were visiting the communities where they were slain, and in both cases their killers were ...