At high schools across the United States, students can take for the first time an Advanced Placement course in African American studies that addresses “the vital contributions and experiences of ...

Virginia Tech plans to close two of its living-learning communities tailored for students interested in Africana and LGBTQ+ studies.

Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world's languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates - many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence ...

Africana religions have remained vital sources of cultural expression, spiritual healing, and resistance. They have played a significant role in the affirmation of Black identity and humanity, and in ...

Africana’s food is concentrated almost entirely on the specialties of Ghana and Nigeria. Basically, that means lots of soups and stews, elaborately prepared, with layers of flavors. Jollof rice is to ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

A demographic transformation in Africa has the potential to alter the world order Last November, the global population reached a significant milestone of 8 billion. More recently, in April, India ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations.

Dickinson alumni, students, faculty and friends recently filled every seat in the Stern Center Great Room to witness a milestone for the college’s Africana studies department. They’d gathered to ...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday alleged a US airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants, killing at least 68 people and wounding 47 others. The US military had no immediate comment. The strike in ...

At least 68 African migrants have been killed in a US air strike on a detention centre in Houthi-controlled north-western Yemen, the armed group's TV channel says. Al Masirah reported that another 47 ...