Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...

Grammy-winning artist Ciara has been granted citizenship in Benin, becoming one of the first prominent individuals to benefit ...

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

History was made. It was the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent. Benin Republic chose ...

In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...

A recent law passed by the West African country of Benin grants citizenship to anyone who can show they are descended from ...

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.