Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't come from a royal background, but his family tree is linked to kings like Richard III!

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You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...

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William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil ...

Staff and volunteers at the Shenandoah Valley Black Heritage Project are working to keep stories of perseverance alive.

The team was also at the heart of Leicester's greatest mystery - the identification of the remains of Richard III. By comparing DNA from the skeletal remains to living descendants of Richard’s ...

Richard Cohen, the husband of former TODAY anchor Meredith Vieira, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 76. Cohen lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 50 years and survived a pair of cancer ...

Actor and spectator were for Brook the building blocks of this art form. American avant-gardist Richard Foreman, who died Jan. 4 at age 87, took Brook’s proposition a step further, envisioning a ...

“He’s our Picasso,” the actor said of Bob Dylan. By Kathryn Shattuck It has been more than four decades since an Armani-clad Richard Gere slunk around Los Angeles in Paul Schrader’s ...

The genomes carried evidence of Neanderthal ancestry. Researchers determined that the ancestors of those early humans who lived in Ranis and the surrounding area likely encountered and made babies ...