In 2024, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias banned over 300 vanity and personalized license plates due to ...

From the 1650s to 1776, parts of the Americas and coastal regions of West Africa were under British authority and connected ...

Reggae artists are using their platforms to highlight the enduring legacy of slavery through music and advocacy ...

“Slave”: A Visual and Musical Teaser In anticipation of the album’s release, Tyga has unveiled “Slave”, a provocative and hard-hitting track accompanied by an eye-catching music video. With dynamic ...

But our lives, our labour, our knowledge, our music and our ideas shaped ... whereas the transatlantic slave trade involved the mass transportation of African peoples, to support economic growth ...

Solomon Northup was a free Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York—a married, educated carpenter and musician—when two ...

The stigma of slavery remains in America today. The status of slaves in America was different to that of those in Africa and Europe. In ancient times a slave in North Africa, Greece or Rome ...

The law is open to all over 18 who do not already hold other African citizenship and can provide proof that an ancestor was deported via the slave trade from anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa.

From captivating rhythms to technological innovations, streaming platforms are revolutionizing the African music industry. From Jerusalema, which united the world amid a pandemic, to the global ...

A major problem in Barack Obama’s autobiography, Dreams from my Father (first published 1995, new edition 2004), is summed up in the title of the last book by the banned South African historian, ...

Conductor Nicholas Hersh calls William Dawson's work "a fundamental part of our history and a beautiful piece of our culture.