In the 15th century painting “Miracle of the Relic of the Cross at the Rialto Bridge,” a Black gondolier calmly rows his client through the center of a frenetic scene. When you picture Venice’s famous ...

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 ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An African History of Africa, by Zeinab Badawi. Mariner Books, 532 pages. While the text does an adequate job of surveying a vast topic, it ...

People and their environment : Africa's climate and demography. The perils of rainfall variations ; Population growth and decline ; The ecology of health ; Greater demographic disparities ; Greater ...

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...

In this first episode Zeinab Badawi visits rarely seen historic sites and magnificent ruins in Mali and Mauritania in West Africa. We hear from Africans about how trans-Saharan trade, mainly in gold, ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

Nate Tinner-Williams, a Globe contributing opinion writer, is cofounder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger. Most retellings of Black history in the United States start with Britain’s city of ...

Divine Dance is a new exhibit at The Center for African-American History, Art and Culture that tell dance in the Black ...

A major overhaul to South Africa's CAPS history curriculum has sparked heated debates over its implications for future generations. Will this new focus foster critical thinkers or simply enforce a ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on Francis's legacy of championing the developing world, though the chances of ...