On Monday, May 26, there was a powerful Memorial Day ceremony held on a hilly wedge of green land carved amid the gargantuan Palisades Mall near Dick’s Sporting Goods, in West Nyack.

The Rwandan community in Chad on Saturday, May 31, marked the 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, honouring the memory of over one million men, women, and children who were ...

Ngabo El’Cesart is a bold visual artist and illustrator whose honest and unapologetic work celebrates Black people, culture, ...

Trans people fought police alongside gays and lesbians after a 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn. A government website now tells ...

H.H. Holmes is believed to be the United States’ first known serial killer. In 1886, Holmes, whose original name was Herman ...

These men and women had been stolen from their homes in Africa, forced to board a ship, and sailed for months into the unknown. The first Africans in an English colony, their arrival is considered ...

A new book documents how young people in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg use social ties to find ways ...

Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of th ...

Timothy Meaher had pressured the African men, who had been naturalized in 1868, to vote Democrat, the pro-slavery party. But he doubted they would, so on Election Day, he told the polling station ...

Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum is spotlighting the men and women who fought to end slavery but received little ...

Shepstone Gardens will be transformed, its grounds a living gallery for one of Africa’s most exciting art fairs. RMB ...