Nancy Elizabeth Prophet. Youth (Head in Wood), ca. 1930. Wood. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Saundra Williams-Cornwell, 2014.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum) ...

The all-African-American 332nd Fighter Group, known as the Tuskegee Airmen, never lost an escorted bomber to enemy fighters. They would be requested by numerous bomber crews. With the 51st Defense ...

Alexandre Desplat channeled his love of Duke Ellington into the score of 'The Piano Lesson,' Malcolm Washington's feature ...

How the works of US writer and activist James Baldwin still resonate 100 years after his birth.

Roughly 90% of people in Africa, including Ghana, who identify as prophets or men of God are reportedly fake, according to reports made by Dr. Mensa Otabil, the founder and general overseer of the ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

But the journey to this monumental achievement was fraught with challenges and struggles for African Americans. In the aftermath of the Civil War, with the abolition of slavery formalised by the ...

I really hope they get their passports soon." A 'year of return' in Ghana Like Landy and Lewis, many African-Americans have in recent years embarked on a migration movement known as "repatriation ...

Daryl Grigsby on the moral and ethical betrayal of Catholic social teaching and a church laity (and hierarchy) that seems to ...

James W.C. Pennington, for example, characterized slavery as “an institution of the dark age” while critiquing the “monarchs, patriarchs, and prophets of the South.” Frederick Douglass ...