These four artists are turning to centuries-old stories of migration to expand contemporary understandings of race, ethnicity ...

Iraq’s massive agricultural system, believed to have been built by enslaved Africans, has been given dates by the first archaeological study of its kind.

A new study found that a gene passed down from extinct archaic humans provided an adaptive advantage for Indigenous people of ...

If you venture to the Southern end of the African continent, you will find a land that is influenced by many diverse cultures ...

"Many people told me I shouldn’t go in the ocean, that it’s dangerous and not my place as a woman, but I just threw myself in ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Ousmane Sembène's "Xala" and Souleymane Cissé's "Baara" revel in caustic humor and the comeuppance of corrupt leaders to ...