Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall is on view as part of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Using his trademark ...

The W.H. Dorsey painting is one more piece of evidence that there was a thriving Black community in antebellum Philadelphia ...

Historic preservationist Dolly Marshall, winner of a National Trust for Historic Preservation award, hopes the country's ...

Letters and photos, diaries and documents stashed in bankers boxes or file cabinets or kitchen drawers turned to ash in the ...

Discover forgotten Black history in the American West with the #CowboyCarterChronicles! From Juneteenth to sundown towns, explore new pathways to freedom inspired by Beyoncé.

The backlog of subsidised public housing in South Africa is estimated at 2.4 million ... Fourth, the contractor model keeps people dependent on the government. Fifth, the model is prone to corruption ...

The group went to the departmental archives in Périgueux, where they found only one record which contained Yvette’s surname — ...

Some traditions haven’t changed much in the 173-year history of the St. Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church in ...

This year, the Institution’s museums are bringing to the public everything from the flair of state fairs to the artwork of ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies for months in what trade unions described as a "horrific" state crackdown on ...