Over the past few weeks, protestors around the world have called for an end to police brutality and white supremacy in the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police ...

February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the ...

Two interlinked but unfinished revolutions – one intellectual and one overtly political – have been playing a central role in Africa and the diaspora. Together they will help shape the trajectory of ...

A blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris spotlights 300-plus works by 150 artists of African heritage New Research Lower-Class Workers May Have Been Buried in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids ...

EXCLUSIVE: Djimon Hounsou has boarded director Tony Kaye’s African History Y. The plot is being kept under wraps, billed only as “a story of tragedy and redemption.” Charles Chanchori, Jason Corder ...

Eyder Peralta talks with Charles Waters and Irene Latham about their book, "African Town." It's about the community established by the Africans on the last slave ship to the U.S. The Clotilda sleeps ...

Remains in the graves of St. Helena, where the British military housed “liberated” enslaved Africans, contain isotopes from inland Angola and Zimbabwe Cool Finds In a Graveyard of Shipwrecks Between ...