To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, the South African musician Hugh Masekela, recently performed inside Elmina slave fort alongside musicians from Britain, the Caribbean and ...

23 years ago, The African American Museum in St. Martinville opened it’s doors with the mission of showing visitors who the Africans were before arriving in Louisiana.

Enslaved persons, sailors, and other groups at the bottom of the colonial hierarchy of power rose up against their oppressors. These rebellions struck fear in the heart of rulers everywhere, and ...

The Ashé Cultural Arts Center celebrates 25 years of Maafa with events Saturday (June 28) and July 5, commemorating the ...

*More than 30 objects, including Harriet Tubman’s hymnal, have been rotated out of the National Museum of African American History and Culture amid President Trump’s executive order targeting ...

Seven years after the Florida Legislature approved a memorial recognizing the tragedy of slavery for the grounds of the ...

African slaves had been in Florida 54 years before they arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. One historian says the 1619 narrative 'robs black history.' ...

Traveler Rondel Holder uses DNA testing to trace his African heritage and embark on a ... terms of travel and culture, ... very little about African history and Black history before slavery.

Slavery had existed in African societies before European arrival. Demand for enslaved labour from Europeans turned the trade in captured Africans into a huge industry.

"There was a whole lot of history before the Europeans came to Africa, before they started recruiting slaves -- what happened before, what was the story of Africa before the Europeans came."She ...