Featuring a stellar cast that bridges Nollywood and international film circuits—Bolanle Ninalowo, Tobi Bakre, Fathia Balogun, ...

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

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Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...

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Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

Nearly 150 people from across the world have attended a gathering on the Anglican Church’s involvement in transatlantic ...

1619: First slaves brought to Jamestown; African language, culture and grooming tradition begin to disappear. 1700s: Calling black hair "wool," many whites dehumanize slaves.

As the civil rights movement intensified in the 1960s, the textbooks began to draw heavy criticism, largely for their depictions of slaves and post-Civil War African-Americans.