Here are the times Hollywood depicted women in the military and how they contributed, including some of the best war movies ...

In honor of Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and celebrates Black […] ...

The kataklè is a three-legged royal chair from Dahomey, a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from 1600 until 1904. It was discovered to be at the National Museum ...

The word ‘‘Mino’’ means our mothers in Fon, likewise the Ewe language. The Mino of Dahomey were also referred to as Agojie. They would come to be known by Europeans as Dahomey Amazons. They were a ...

Largest audience award in the world, Lux Audience Award returns for 2025 with Oscar-winning 'Flow' and Ukraine war doc 'Interecepted' as nominees ...

Black Box Diaries could have played out as a hard-hitting piece of investigative journalism, perhaps in the style of Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (The Hunting Ground, The Invisible War). Itō ...

Franco-Dahomean war of 1889-90, and a likeness of King Ghézo, who ended Dahomey’s tributary subordination to the Oyo Empire in the 1820s. So far, so conventional. But as Ghézo’s shipping crate is ...

“Controversially acquired” is really a euphemism for stolen and looted art typically acquired during times of conflict like war and colonization. French-Senegalese writer and director Mati Diop ...

In Dahomey (pop. 2,200,000), the situation is aggravated by the fact that it once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that “brains are our biggest export”; now ...