“We found Africa on Maryland’s Eastern Shore,” announced Julie Schablitsky, chief archaeologist at the Maryland Department of Transportation, on Tuesday, per the Washington Post’s Ovetta Wiggins. For ...
The drinks industry has long overlooked this continent. A shift is happening. Africa is often overlooked by those outside the continent when it comes to cocktail culture and spirits production. But in ...
On the coast of my home country Ghana there are two hauntingly beautiful castles, formerly used to confine slaves on their way to the New World. My parents refused to let me visit the ...
Credit: Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The exhibition includes photographs of several ...
The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...
BALTIMORE -- Maryland archaeologists uncovered African religious artifacts on the Eastern Shore land where abolitionist Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in 1822, officials announced Tuesday. Gov.