The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country ...

Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, ...

Juneteenth is being celebrated around central Ohio in multiple ways. Here is your guide to celebrating America's second Independence Day.

Kate Mosse doesn’t just write historical fiction – she immerses you in it. From the labyrinthine streets of medieval France ...

The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history - the fabulous decades in the second half of the ...

Juneteenth celebrations are known for the variety of programs and events that highlight African American history and culture. In the 1960s, students at Prairie View A&M ...

Shortlisted books for the BCA 2025 Awards include: ‘A West African Entrepreneur’s Challenging Path to Financial Freedom’ by Ike O. Obi and Janine de Nyssche, ‘Africonomics: A History of ...

"The Bible and book belong to Rev. Brown of San Francisco who generously loaned them to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture for an exhibition. The loan ...

It is a common practice to divide African history into three epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Yet as the philosopher Olufemi Taiwo has convincingly argued, this approach is wrong on ...

This book, as Richard Reid explains at the outset, is not the history of the European “Scramble for Africa” that the publishers asked him to write. It is a story of the African scramble.

We sit down for a coffee with veteran Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who discusses the value of history and the fact that everyone is African, some key thoughts from her award-shortlisted ...