Should African people be called black – or is the categorising of people by skin colour a racist practice? How about Africa? Is the name of the continent a racial slur because it was chosen by ...

Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call ...

That's just a function of who we are as African Americans." About 5% of people who identify as European American receive matches to at least one of the company's African Diaspora Genetic Groups ...

In southern Africa, people from Stem1 and Stem2 merged, giving rise to a new lineage that would lead to the Nama and other living humans in that region. Elsewhere in Africa, ...

Who are Swahili people and how was their culture formed? Thousand-year-old DNA tells a story of multiracial connections, trade, and refugees.

People of African and Asian origins began to mix in the region by around 1000 AD, the study showed. The genetic findings reflected the Swahili people's cosmopolitan nature.