Wole Soyinka and Late President Kwame Nkruma of Ghana In Harmattan Haze on an African Spring, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka condemns the notion that any of the major civilizations occurred in a vac­uum.

A controlled production of “knowledge” maintains the marginality of other groups, and it denies exposure to multiple ...

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

A paradox of art history: to understand the artists of the past, it helps to study how, and where, they conceived of the ...

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

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

Harvard University on Thursday laid off the staff of its Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program and outsourced the project, which is part of a $100 million initiative to identify the direct ...

Eight men are accused of sexual offences against the two teenagers. The widespread abuse of girls in a number of English towns and cities, including Rochdale, Rotherham, and Oldham, which emerged ...

Indictment Accuses White Couple of Forcing Adopted Black Children to Work as 'Slaves,' Says Judge The couple's trial began on Tuesday, Jan. 14 in Kanawha County Circuit Court, before Whitefeather ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

She led by example by refusing to eat sugar, a product of the slave trade and the West Indies plantations. With Belfast being a major industrial port in the mid-19th Century, many people about to ...