What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

A newly drafted History Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (Caps) proposes a radical shift away from Eurocentric ...

Back in the 1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) developed Freedom Schools to teach reading, writing, math, civics and history to African Americans whose self-determination was ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

Problem I. Africa and Egypt. Egypt and Negro Africa / by C.G. Seligman -- The Hamitic hypothesis : its origin in time / by Edith R. Sanders -- Kingship, archaeology, and historical myth / Merrick ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

Zeinab Badawi, the Sudanese-born doyenne of British broadcasting and president of London University’s School of African and Oriental Studies, elegantly sips tea while I opt for a number of strong ...

Dr. John E. Fleming was involved in the creation of the first national African American museum in Ohio and later, Smithsonian ...

In an executive order titled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Donald Trump took direct aim at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, (“NMAAHC”) among other ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first official trip to Africa has started with a fascinating stop in Algeria. Here the pontiff’s visit to the ...