Uniting 34 African and diaspora nations, 97 participants, and international media, the Pan-African Progressive Front’s ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley has hailed passage of a UN resolution declaring the trafficking and enslavement of African people the ...

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reparations for slavery and historic discrimination against African Americans once seemed like a pipe dream. But momentum for it ...

Walking on the National Mall in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, I encountered one of the few things that come close to making me feel ashamed to be an American. It was Saturday, August 17th, and ...

Civil rights organizer and activist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore looks on at the airport in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977, during one of several trips the Louisiana native made linking anti-colonialism to ...

Juneteenth on Saturday — a newly minted federal holiday — commemorates the emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. 156 years ago. But more than a century and a half after slavery ...

During a lull one afternoon when I was a high school student selling Black Panther Party newspapers on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1971, I sat down on the curb and opened the tabloid ...

Britain abstains from vote for resolution describing forced displacement of Africans as ‘gravest crime against humanity’ ...

On Feb. 17, Jesse Jackson joined the ancestors. He now resides in our memories alongside our most revered warriors. He stands beside our most hallowed figures from the 20th century ...