Actor Djimon Hounsou wants to bridge the gap between African and Black Americans through his event series, Africa Reconnect.

From Debbie Allen's early days on Broadway to directing, producing and starring on 'Grey's Anatomy', take a look back at some ...

Two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou talks about his philanthropic work, and how ‘systemic racism’ means he’s still ...

One of the New World’s oldest shipwrecks, Civil War-era emancipation in Key West, and the discovery of two fabled sunken ...

Joseph Cinque (African name-- Sengbe Pieh), who revolted and overthrew the Portuguese slave ship La Amistad, won the court battle among European colonialists, and eventually repatriated to Africa; to- ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

In 1841, he successfully argued at the Supreme Court for freeing enslaved Africans who had been captured after violently taking over the Spanish slave ship Amistad. In Congress, he was revered as ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear. They say scores may already have died in atrocious conditions aboard the small, rusting ...

Djimon Hounsou elevates every movie in which he stars in thanks to his incredible range and commitment to the craft.