French senators adopted a bill on Wednesday to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their ...

The findings, based on the analysis of human fossils in a Moroccan cave dating back nearly 800,000 years possibly shift the focus from Europe back to the African continent. The fossils, mainly ...

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

In the middle of a day devoted to strengthening economic and cultural ties between the Virgin Islands and Africa, Gov. Albert ...

New York-based cocktail historian David Wondrich had most recently finished editing an 860-plus-page compendium of knowledge about cocktail history when the opportunity arose to share cocktail history ...

As Angela Davis celebrates her 82nd birthday Monday (Jan. 26), The Root honors the living legacy of the revolutionary, ...

This region is not a slogan, nor a mere administrative territory. It is a living memory, a language that has endured for centuries, and a distinct way of ...

How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...

Eighty years after his death, the memory of Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay remains deeply etched in Nigeria’s political and ...

Colonialism did not begin with Europe, and it did not skip Africa. Long before European empires rose African powers expanded conquered and dominated neighboring peoples across vast regions. From Egypt ...

A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and ...

American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to ...