In the 15th century painting “Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Rialto Bridge,” a Black gondolier calmly rows his client through the center of a frenetic scene. When you picture Venice’s famous ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of course, the story of humans in Africa doesn’t end with their migration away from the mother continent. After all, many stayed ...

Claremore Christian School presented a living history exhibit Feb. 27 about 10 Africans who made significant contributions to ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

A traveling art exhibit celebrating African civilizations, Egyptian mythology, and historic landscapes arrives in ...

People and their environment : Africa's climate and demography. The perils of rainfall variations ; Population growth and decline ; The ecology of health ; Greater demographic disparities ; Greater ...

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...

Namibia might not be well known in many parts of the world. But the arid southern African country has an extraordinary history. Rich in indigenous cultural diversity, Namibians lived for more than a ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

Before air-conditioning existed, staying cool during the summer months in the southern United States was a foreign skill for early European colonists. But enslaved Africans, hailing from similar warm ...