LUANDA (Reuters) - Joe Biden will use his visit to Angola on Tuesday, the first by a U.S. president to the sub-Saharan African country, to mark the two nations' shared history in the transatlantic ...

Those who were liberated, we learn, were given “freedom papers,” promised “good treatment,” but not accorded the rights of ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- Benin has become the latest African nation to try to atone for its past with a new law granting citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade. Passed in ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of people of sub-Saharan African descent living in Britain more than 1,300 years ago. It's not only the earliest evidence in Britain of people with recent Black ...

(Reuters) - Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since its first law abolishing trade in African slaves received royal assent, in a major step toward ending a trade that shipped more than 10 million ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the unique “geologic fingerprints” for most of the African continent. The map ...