AAPG copy 39088019788785 signed by author, "To Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence, with admiration and affection." 1. Land of Their Ancestors. Ghana. Mali. Songhay. Other States -- 2. The African Way ...

In 1926, African American historian Carter G. Woodson, a Harvard Ph.D., issued a call for a weeklong celebration of African ...

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

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

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 ...

More than 12 million Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade. Over the centuries, most were taken to the Americas, while millions of others died along the way. Today, monuments to ...

By Iwuchukwu EzenwaforHistory is criminally silent over the devastating consequences and the indelible scars trailing the inhuman transatlantic slave trade spanning over a space of four centuries ...

Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 21: (AFP OUT) President Donald Trump delivers remarks after touring the Smithsonian National Museum of ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has become a target of the Trump administration. The museum's director has stepped down since the White House began examining its exhibits ...