Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

In 2025, freedom of expression remains under siege in many African nations as authoritarian governments continue to suppress press freedom, political opposition, and civil liberties. ・21 African ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia opens an exhibition of African American history told solely through African American artifacts. With objects from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, the exhibition ...

The Smithsonian’s “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the struggle for justice.

The African National Congress rose to power under the leadership of Nelson Mandela and used the Freedom Charter, a decades-old manifesto, as a guide to forming a new nation.

Several African nations committed on Monday to open up their electricity sectors to attract investors and light up homes of 300 million people currently lacking power in the next six years.

Voices: African Americans helped build Utah. But our fight for freedom, equality and economic empowerment is far from over. The labor of African Americans is intricate to the very fabric of ...

Today, it has become the Freedom House Museum, which looks at a brutal past but also on the accomplishments of African Americans in Virginia. Beginning in 1828, two slave traders, Isaac Franklin ...

1At the 3rd African Media Convention, being held at the Accra International Conference Centre, the President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, delivered a ...

A personal remembrance of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who saw freedom in language, power in mother tongues, and poetry in memory.