A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

There are lots of different kinds of food we eat in America, but some of them are nothing like their original counterparts, ...

These West African kingdoms and empires developed their ... to spread wealth and learning across the region. The early 18th century saw the rise of the Asante Empire, who established a new ...

(During the 18th century, the British Royal Navy maintained ... something also seen in West African culture. UNITED STATESMardi Gras Indians dress in ceremonial attire to honor the Native ...

Tilak Varma, who is 22, has a good chance of going past Babar Azam to become the youngest to top the ICC T20I batting ...

Accessible via the Blue Line's UIC-Halsted and Racine L stops and the Pink Line's Polk and 18th Street subway stations. If you've come to Chicago for the pizza, head south of the West Loop to ...

Another gruelling Dakar Rally has come to an end and, yet again, the performance of both two- and four-wheeled entrants had a ...

To the west of it, 320 kilometers away ... bringing black slaves from the African continent and began growing sugar cane. In the 18th century there were armed clashes between the French and the ...

These inscriptions were written in Sanskrit (the liturgical language of Hinduism) using the Pallava script, a script developed in Southern India around the third century AD ... the far east to Africa ...