Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of ...

ESPN Africa's Ed Dove looks back over the last 10 months and reveals his all-African men's Team of the Season for 2024/25.

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 ...

Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , she discusses animals in times of capture — and freedom: What is the ...

Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has - like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change - seen an outpouring of remarkable nonfiction. The Interpreters is a new book that ...

As GOP lawmakers push to ban some books and restrict history lessons, groups across the country plan a day of actions to ...

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...

From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

There are many ways I could convince you to read this book. I could say it’s as good as any Dickens novel. I could say you’ll disappear ...

I had to make sure George came home in one piece,“ says former Argus-Courier editor Matt Brown in an interview about his new ...

From planting periwinkles on the graves of slaves, to the blues itself, the colour blue was core to Black Americans’ pursuit ...