Victor Osimhen left an indelible mark in the Belgian Pro League as the Nigerian forward's record remains intact after six ...

Africa Restored (Cheryl as Cleopatra) by Kerry James Marshall is on view as part of “Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Using his trademark ...

Letters and photos, diaries and documents stashed in bankers boxes or file cabinets or kitchen drawers turned to ash in the ...

On a sidewalk near the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met Jaqueline Smith, a long-term resident of the motel until she was forcibly evicted in 1988. For 36 years, ...

The group went to the departmental archives in Périgueux, where they found only one record which contained Yvette’s surname — ...

This collection includes a moving supernatural romance, eye-opening historical accounts, a portrait of a poet and the ...

Dove had stumbled upon George Augustus Bridgetower, a mixed-race violinist who had 15 minutes of fame and then was written out of history. In 2009, after extensive research and exploration, Dove ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

Ifemesia’s generation fervently fought for Nigeria’s independence. His participation had the extra oomph because of his understanding of the “things that fell apart” because of the European incursion.

A student of Shreveport’s Providence Academy became one of the first African Americans to serve as a clerk in the Railway ...

The study of (mostly white) residents and (mostly black) workers in an old age home in South Africa took place over seven ...