Eleanor and Lyle Gittens hold the record for longest-married couple in the world. According to recent Black marriage data, that record won't be broken any time soon.

For the last decade, communities around the country have celebrated the beauty of Black love on Black Marriage Day. As the holiday prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, on Sunday, March 17th, ...

This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya. Today, a special roundtable discussion on the state of black marriage in 2006. But first, back to 1965. A report called Black Families in Crisis, written by ...

Black married couples often pay more of a “marriage penalty” than Whites, a new study finds Getty Images Married Black couples often pay more in federal income tax than White married couples. And the ...

When filling out your federal income tax return, there is no requirement to identify your race. Moreover, the US tax code does not contain specific racial group provisions. Yet just because the tax ...

According to the newest jobs report, over 11% of Black women were unemployed in September, compared to just around 8% of the general population. Last year, Black women earned 62 cents on the dollar ...

Shaunie Henderson, media mogul and former wife of basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, recently unveiled a profound truth in her memoir UNDEFEATED: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms about ...

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 ...

Fans of the 2000 film Love and Basketball can testify to the collective heartbreak felt when Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) dunks on Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) to win their final game that would decide ...

Reality show follows five NYC women as they navigate dating drama. — -- Monet Bell has gone to great lengths to find love and marriage. First, the 34-year-old participated in the FYI reality show ...

A group of African-American pastors say that President Barack Obama’s backing of gay marriage may cost him the election due to weakening support among black voters -- although he still has ...