The recent article in The Root by Boston University historians Linda Heywood and John Thornton generated considerable interest in their groundbreaking findings that most American blacks are descended ...

Before the advent of DNA testing, scholars relied on shipping records that listed the African ports from which slaves were exported to determine where in Africa the African-descended population of the ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Gulf Coast Kwanzaa Coalition held its 33rd annual celebration to celebrate the roots of African ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...

COLUMBIA — When Kevin Mitchell was growing up in New Jersey, he didn't think twice about the Southern food his grandmother would cook. "At six years old, I was like, 'It's delicious. My granny's ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded Althemese Barnes the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award for her decades ...

After several weeks of violence in which mobs of South Africans have attacked immigrants from other African countries, Johannesburg authorities have opened refugee camps to house as many as 10,000 who ...