Le Pavillon was a luxury hotel located just a few blocks from the French Quarter. It had 219 guest rooms, and many of its ...

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 ...

Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author New Sweden Most people think the first log cabins in America came from pioneers heading west ...

In 1803, America pulled off the biggest real estate deal in history. Napoleon needed cash fast after his Caribbean empire ...

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

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

It has promoted the exchange of ideas, helped along the Enlightenment... and devastated communities, landscapes, rainforests. What’s next?

Mr Patterson reminds us in his August 1 message that, “Emancipation did not come easily. It certainly was not a favour or a ...

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

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