For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A memorial to enslaved Africans transported on Lancaster-owned ships as part of the Transatlantic slave trade has been ...

DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the ...

The contributions of Olaudah Equiano to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade are as impressive as they are numerous. Equiano was a voice for the thousands of Africans being enslaved by Europeans, ...