The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, ravaged Europe between 1346 and 1352, decimating almost half of the ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. The post Single gene evolution helped Black ...

They are taken from the second revelation or “shewing” of the 14th-century mystic’s extraordinary Revelations ... turmoil, and plague. The Black Death, the English Peasants’ Revolt, and the emergence ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

A former 14th century monastery will re-open to visitors this month with a half-term festival and a 60-seat café. Plans have unveiled for Coventry Charterhouse by the National Trust, which has ...

About ten New York state correctional officers implicated in the death of Robert Brooks, a Black inmate who was savagely beaten in custody, were charged with murder after the incident. One officer ...

Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district.

Following the 2020 census, Alabama made six of its seven districts majority white, despite 27 percent of the state’s population being Black. Though the Supreme Court allowed the map to be used ...

The ruling establishes that the Alabama congressional map must include two districts where Black voters have the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice (like the map ordered by the court ...