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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African ...

Ana Angola was captured in the kingdom of Ndongo and spent months on a ship before a journey over land where she was forced ...

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

New York isn’t just a haven for Christians from around the world; it’s also a sanctuary for their rare and dying dialects.

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For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance.

Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship on the Atlantic Ocean in 1729, yet he became a writer, a composer, a shopkeeper and a respected man of letters in 18th-century London – the first man ...

Rhythm of Dammam' earned a special jury mention at the recently concluded International Film Festival of Kerala ...

On New Year’s Eve, when most of us will be out celebrating the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 with parties, champagne ...

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