About 1,900 bears live in the national park, and at least 5,500 bears live across East Tennessee, according to Dan Gibbs, black bear program coordinator at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

From enslaved women concealing rice grains in their hair to Underground Railroad maps woven inside cornrows, Black hair has often been recognized in the multi-ethnic Black community as a symbol of ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities. By Adam Bradley LAST SPRING, DURING the Broadway ...

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 ...

A “Black Lives Matter” street mural that adorned two blocks of 16th Street Northwest near the White House in Washington, DC is in the process of being removed, according to reporting by The ...

Den checks help the state gather information on Michigan's black bear population, which totals around 12,000, mostly in the Upper Peninsula. Biologists analyze sex, age and weight data and find ...

Louisiana will expand its black bear hunting season in 2025, increasing the number of permits and opening two new hunting areas. The decision comes after a successful inaugural hunt in 2024 ...

this is actually a fur color black bears sometimes have. Missouri Department of Conservation Furbearer Biologist Nate Bowersock said another giveaway is the unrealistic bear behavior shown in the ...

“If you worked in Columbus in art in the last 50 years and you’re Black, then you’re probably on that list,” Woods said. “And if you’re not, well, we hope to continue to add to it.” ...

Black bears are omnivores. They eat nuts, berries, grasses, insects, eggs, honey and small mammals. Unregulated hunting before statehood caused a drastic decline in the bear population. But since the ...