Clotilda Descendants Association holds annual Landing celebration, commemorating the arrival of the last group of Africans ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

As armed groups continue to wreak havoc across Africa, a leading African Catholic has blamed the scourge on the race to ...

By Prince Acquah  Cape Coast, July 01, GNA – The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Cape Coast ...

The Fourth of July reminds us of how precious and dearly bought our freedoms are -- and why they’re worth protecting. So let ...

He came for a degree in 1981 – he stayed through revolutions, economic collapse, and now war. Meet Aniki Johnson, the ...

The Georgian house was built in 1832 by John Treadwell Norton on land he inherited from his grandfather, former Connecticut ...

It's a big weekend for New Orleans. The annual ESSENCE Festival visits the city once again, and July 4 fireworks will light ...

Dowling Watford, left, and Glenn Bakels, right, stand in Riverbend Park, once the spot where the U.S. Army battled Seminoles ...

Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead ...