The night of Dec. 31, 1862 was perhaps the most renowned Watch Night service, when slaves not only witnessed the dawning of a new day but of a new era.

PHILADELPHIA – In the 1950s, when the bells of the historic First African Baptist Church rang 96 feet above this corner in South Philadelphia, the neighborhood was filled with prosperous African ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

A number of the plantation's slaves had been born in Africa, and one of them, the elderly fisherman known as Father Jack, told stories about that far-off and exotic place to young George ...

Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory leads a prayer service Feb. 25, 2023, for enslaved people believed to be buried in the cemetery at Sacred Heart Parish in Bowie, Md.

The vice president leaned into her heritage during a three-nation trip to Africa to strengthen U.S. relations on the continent. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from Cape Coast, Ghana After walking ...

Vice President Kamala Harris became visibly emotional Tuesday during a visit to a colonial-era African slave fort, lamenting the fate of millions of captives who passed through a “door of no ...