It troubles Serge Alain Niang'O that many of his fellow Ivorians know more about the famous descendants of African slaves trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean than their own ancestors. Even if the ...

Many a socialite visited Ann Lowe’s Gowns, a salon on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, in the 1950s. The daughter and granddaughter of African American seamstresses, Lowe designed the wedding dress worn ...

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a ...

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...

Governor Hochul announced a new $3.8 million grant program Sunday, to support and promote the history and achievements of ...

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 ...

Reign of Royalty, Feb. 22 at 3:30 p.m. at the Frazier Extended Education & Cultural Enrichment Center, uses fashion, dance, music and ceremony to honor African kings and queens in Natchez and the Miss ...

In this book, Robert Harms presents African history as an ongoing dialogue between global forces and uniquely African developments. Africans did not merely bend before global forces, he contends; they ...

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 ...