The craftsman makes sturdy ladder-back chairs through green woodworking, a technique that carves out furniture from a log. Its seats are finely woven, and the two horizontal bars that connect the two ...

Robell Awake is a chairmaker and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects." ...

In the 1990s, Prof Bujra went to Addis Ababa to lunch a policy research and training centre.

Perhaps the most powerful shaper of English was William Tyndale. Tyndale's translation of the Bible into English is rich in ...

“We Need New Names” is NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 debut novel about a young impoverished African girl who eventually moves to ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – ...

Radio producer and reality TV star Loyiso Bala recently revealed that he graduated with an MBA. The gospel singer also shared ...

When politicians act like preachers, we get members of the House falling over themselves to HR 59 condemning Bishop Mariann ...

Many residents in Altadena evacuated not knowing it would be the last time they would see their homes standing. Their ...

No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their names, forgotten for more than a century, have been revived ...

Afrobeat superstar Seun Kuti has stirred reactions online as he attacked Nigerians and Africans abroad The renowned saxophonist argued that there was a silent and unwritten agreement among Africans in ...