Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

Medoune Ndiaye stood up in a room at Kingsley Plantation and, in his native Wolof language, began reciting, from memory, the names of the rulers of the Kingdom of Jolof. He went on for many minutes: ...

On Tuesday, there was a relaunch of the African American Heritage Trail in Louisiana.Much of the African American history in the state and across the country remains untold.State leaders said it is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...