The historic Bacon’s Castle, the oldest building in Virginia and the oldest brick dwelling on the continent, is set to ...

Many of Chicago’s oldest schools are named after white men. The first one named after a Black person goes back to the 1930s.

Atlanta's Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church survived the Civil War and became known as the City Hall of Sweet ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Student curators shared their love for African history and culture during a reception Feb. 2 for Santa Rosa Junior College’s Multicultural Museum’s latest exhibit, “Diaspora In Beads.” SRJC students ...

Her face glowing as warm weather swept across Nairobi on Sunday morning, Jane Warui and her peers walked briskly to the podium to perform a Chinese lion dance, ...

All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ...

The oldest Stone Age cremation, carried out 9,500 years ago in a remote rock shelter, has been found in Africa.

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according to a new study ...