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On a crisp Monday in Detroit, a steady stream of residents filed into the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American ...

EXCLUSIVE: When Oscar-winning director Ben Proudfoot debuted his feature doc The Eyes of Ghana at the London Film Festival ...

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Acclaimed Italian filmmaker and activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will bring his thought-provoking film, “We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” to the Wexner Center for ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

Overview: Friends of Geer Cemetery probes history and soil to preserve the stories of people buried at the historically ...

Fifty years ago today, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought viewers like you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour evening program, free of commercials, that aimed to tell one in-depth story per ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

The Paducah Historical Preservation Group, Inc. (PHPG) proudly announces the opening of “The Life and Art of Helen LaFrance: ...

Four rowers became the first from South Africa to compete in the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston as part of ...

The latest IUCN assessment of the species notes that historically the slender-billed curlew was likely locally common, but ...