Heritage

Africa’s cultural heritage treasure war with Europe

Africa’s cultural heritage treasure war with Europe

Looting, museumification, restitution... African cultural heritage experts are calling out ... and rebelling. Egypt, the instigator of an international protest movement has, for several...
African cultural heritage fight with the West fuelled by national identity

African cultural heritage fight with the West fuelled by national identity

The question of African cultural heritage in the West is still hanging in the balance. Should their valuable artifacts remain in European and North...
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Battling Siki, world boxing’s unsung hero

The French comic book recounts the tragic life and career of boxer M’Barick Amadou Fall, one of boxing’s most prominent and yet shockingly unacknowledged...
Brown v. Board of Education: The Law, the Legacy

Brown v. Board of Education: The Law, the Legacy

When the Negro writer Ralph Ellison learned of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in May 1954, he exclaimed to a...
Before Rosa Parks there was Claudette Colvin

Before Rosa Parks there was Claudette Colvin

The American Civil War ended slavery without ending racial prejudice. In the decades that followed, Caucasian Americans passed hundreds of laws (primarily in the...
Rosa Parks: Mother of Civil Rights

Rosa Parks: Mother of Civil Rights

Rosa McCauley Parks is known today as the “mother of the civil rights movement” because her arrest for refusing to give up her bus...
Sojourner Truth: Abolishionist and proponent of women’s rights

Sojourner Truth: Abolishionist and proponent of women’s rights

An ardent abolitionist and a proponent of women's rights, Sojourner Truth (Born: c. 1797; Died: November 26, 1883) found her voice in the early...
United States: Ancient Gullah culture from Africa brought back to life

United States: Ancient Gullah culture from Africa brought back to life

In the Gullah culture, there is an expression that goes, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you should know where you came from.”...
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WOYAWOYA: Going Back Home

It is a crisp, sunny, February day in Los Angeles and I am on my way to the airport to catch my flight to...
Black History Month: The automatic bread-making machine

Black History Month: The automatic bread-making machine

A century ago, bread bought in stores was handmade, a time and labor-intensive process. That changed when an African-American food executive from Boston,...
Nelson Mandela’s short walk to freedom remembered

Nelson Mandela’s short walk to freedom remembered

Twenty years ago today, Olive Petersen was part of a 500,000 strong crowd that gathered in front of Cape Town's City Hall to await...
Black History Month: A legacy of struggle and triumph

Black History Month: A legacy of struggle and triumph

Each February, Black History Month honors the struggles and triumphs of millions of American citizens over the most devastating obstacles — slavery, prejudice, poverty...
Badu Bonsu II, King of the Ahanta

The Netherlands gives back the head of King Badu Bonsu II to Ghana

Members of the Ahanta kingdom, one of several kingdoms within the Akan group, Thursday took part in a ceremony in the Netherlands to honour...
Three new world heritage sites include an 18th century african slave hideout

Three new world heritage sites include an 18th century african slave hideout

The mountain of Le Morne, a former hideout of runaway slaves in Mauritius, a Nabataean archaeological site in Saudi Arabia and earthen houses in...
Relocated Egyptian Jews not wanted back in Egypt

Relocated Egyptian Jews not wanted back in Egypt

Hotels canceled a planned trip by a Jewish group of Egyptian origin to the North African nation of their heritage in the face of...
Robben Island : Mandela’s prison island abandoned and in disrepair

Robben Island : Mandela’s prison island abandoned and in disrepair

Robben Island Museum in South Africa has rejected a report that wild animals on the 574 hectare island are starving to death...