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Egypt leads African countries to recover ancient treasures
Egypt, under the leadership of Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian Supreme Leader, is determined to recover its ancient treasures scattered throughout the world. The case,...
Dorothy Height honored by Obama
Dorothy Height, a founding mother of the American civil rights movement who fought for racial justice and gender equality for more than six decades,...
Arabization and a history of Black-African marginalization in Mauritania
Overtaken by an overpowering sense of relentless cultural oppression and marginalization, Black-Mauritanians continue to express their resentment after two recent speeches, by the Prime...
The great African Meroë empire at the Louvre Museum
Meroë is one of the great kingdoms of ancient Sudan. Next to it was Egypt, another great kingdom. For several centuries, especially the late...
Zanzibar: US restores 900 year Kizimkazi mosque
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation has provided support for saving three mosques in Tanzania, including the one near Kizimkazi on the island...
New York honors its African past
Angelou, the renowned American writer and poet, spoke of the enslavement and mistreatment of Africans during the colonial and early statehood periods of present-day...
James Brown and Aretha Franklin: Two masters of 1960s “soul” music
Among many significant artists whose names became linked with “soul music” in the 1960s, James Brown and Aretha Franklin stand out as exceptionally popular...
The lost Kingdom of Ife, found in Europe
People of different shades of life have been trouping into the British Museum to see some of the most fascinating display of arts produced...
Jim Crow, Segregation and African-Americans
During the years that followed, and especially after 1890, state governments in the South adopted segregationist laws mandating separation of the races in nearly...
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...
W.E.B. Du Bois: A champion of direct political agitation and political protest
Many blacks turned for leadership to the historian and social scientist W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). A graduate of Fisk University, a historically black institution...
Madam C.J. Walker: Remembering a great African-American entrepreneur
Many individual African Americans made important entrepreneurial contributions to American society. One of the most famous of these entrepreneurs is Madam C.J. Walker.
Walker...
Harking back to the ghosts of District Six
On the 20th anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela Stefan Simanowitz reports on the opening of a new theatre rising from the ashes...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Fighting and Writing for Justice
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women’s rights advocate, journalist, and speaker of international stature. She stands as one of our...
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
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 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
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
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.”...
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
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
Each February, Black History Month honors the struggles and triumphs of millions of American citizens over the most devastating obstacles — slavery, prejudice, poverty...
After London and Paris, Venus regains her dignity, but how much?
She was called The Hottentot Venus, for her civil status she was Saartjie (Sara) Baartman. Sent back to South Africa, her homeland, to be...
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...
Namibia and Germany : A fight for colonial skeletons
Namibia's Prime Minister Nahas Angula said Monday that Namibia would not issue an official request to the German government to bring back colonial era...