Two million Africans labored, fought and died during the First World War. In South African performance visionary William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load, presented by Cal Performances Nov. 12-15, this ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th ...

Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita believed herself to be possessed by the spirit of St. Anthony. The movement she led in the early ...

Two interlinked but unfinished revolutions – one intellectual and one overtly political – have been playing a central role in Africa and the diaspora. Together they will help shape the trajectory of ...

The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the capture, forcible transport and sale of native Africans to Europeans for lifelong bondage in the Americas. Lasting from the 16th to 19th centuries, it is ...

EXCLUSIVE: Djimon Hounsou has boarded director Tony Kaye’s African History Y. The plot is being kept under wraps, billed only as “a story of tragedy and redemption.” Charles Chanchori, Jason Corder ...