When enslaved people were shipped to Cuba from Africa, they brought their traditions with them. As a result, Cuban cuisine, music and dance are linked to the Motherland. Cubans are warm and love a good party. However, you don’t need to attend an ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- More than 300 years ago, enslaved Africans had an understanding of rice cultivation that helped change the landscape and economy of South Carolina.While working under the brutal and harsh conditions of slavery, Africans didn't ...

A collaboration between CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis and Digital Slavery Research Lab aims to regenerate identities using statsitics. Conflicts among African nations during the collapse of the kingdom of Oyo in the ...

NEW YORK — Object for object, there isn’t an exhibition in town more beautiful than “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nor is there one more shot through with ethical and political tensions. The gathering of 42 ...

“Shake your butt! Did we come here to sit and hide our posterior or to show it off?” says the energetic Patricia Badin, 49, a twerking teacher at the FGO Barbara Centre in the cosmopolitan Parisian district of Barbès. Short shorts, sequined bras, knee ...

Visit any region of the United States, and you'll find Black American cuisine with historic and multinational roots. Some dishes are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African American chefs in their creation have largely been forgotten.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - On East Sixth Street in downtown Hattiesburg, the African American Military History Museum has stood the test of time. Museum Director Latoya Norman said that the building itself is historic, as back in World War Two, this was the USO Club for African Americans stationed at Camp Shelby.

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Whether you’re teaching a Black history or U.S. history course, any teaching about Black people must begin in Africa. That is where the history of mankind, and the history of Black people in America, began. Teaching about Black people in America must ...