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 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.

“When people think of African American in the 18th and 19th centuries, they think of slavery, caricature drawings, and the harsh circumstances African Americans had to endure,” said co-curator Jasmine ...

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

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.

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, across the African diaspora Juneteenth is a new tradition for me. While my lineage isn’t rooted in America, all of the lessons my parents taught me about ...

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 ...

A personal remembrance of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who saw freedom in language, power in mother tongues, and poetry in memory. The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and I first met in mid-May, 2006, in Accra, ...

“For African Americans, the significance of Labor Day goes far beyond the celebration of labor itself; it is a history rooted in enslavement, resilience and the unyielding spirit of freedom and ...