Cassandra Lewis awaits approval from West African nation while reflecting on her great-great-grandfather Cudjo Lewis's ...

American singer, Ciara acknowledged the South African music industry by using a fan favored Amapiano song, Magumba, by PeeKay ...

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

Ciara celebrates her Beninese roots in a striking jersey-and-cowrie-shell look, following her official citizenship under the ...

Yvon Detchenou, Benin's Minister of Justice and Legislation, right, presents citizenship documents to singer Ciara at a ...

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

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

Russell Wilson and Ciara inaugurated a new Why Not You Center in Atlanta. The center aims to empower underserved youth ...

"I feel incredibly proud to be a part of the importance of this moment. The significance of this moment and what it means is ...

McMahon is accused of causing a crash on a Connecticut highway that wrecked his Bentley and damaged two other cars.

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people.