What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

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 ...

Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Djimon Hounsou has boarded director Tony Kaye’s African History Y. The plot is being kept under wraps, billed only as “a story of tragedy and redemption.” Charles Chanchori, Jason Corder ...

This year's African American Read-In theme is 'Black History: Deeply Rooted, Still Standing and Ever-Growing.' ...

Black History Month should not be about trivia or symbolic firsts. It should be about unlearning—about dismantling the white perspective that framed Africa as marginal and Black people as derivative.

The First African Baptist Church is the oldest black church in North America and first brick structure owned by African Americans in the state of Georgia ...

Reign of Royalty, Feb. 22 at 3:30 p.m. at the Frazier Extended Education & Cultural Enrichment Center, uses fashion, dance, music and ceremony to honor African kings and queens in Natchez and the Miss ...

In this book, Robert Harms presents African history as an ongoing dialogue between global forces and uniquely African developments. Africans did not merely bend before global forces, he contends; they ...