Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.

To Dr. Brian C. Johnson, the past informs the future, and buried in that past are countless stories of people who made a ...

An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...

A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave trade. We ...

On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

was sharpened during a 1977 summer program in West Africa. A sojourn out to Goree Island, an embarkation site for the slave trade for centuries, put her career on an arc that came full circle to ...

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the last day of a three-day festival (some believe longer) known as Carnival, characterized by plenty of celebration and indulgence. It precedes Lent, the Christian ...