The latest report, by a team of investigators working for the UN Human Rights Council, accuses top politicians in the ...

Civil rights veteran Prexy Nesbitt retraces his path from Chicago’s West Side to African liberation struggles, reflecting on ...

The highlights this week: The Egyptian government increasingly wades into geopolitics in the Horn of Africa, Chad closes its ...

The civil war between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) saw an estimated 600,000 ...

Many of these men, once bound in slavery, were also being documented for the first time, impacting generations to come.

Jackson was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. before carving out his own place in the African-American struggle ...

The fragile stability that followed the 2018 peace accord has evaporated, leaving the region’s two most powerful militaries ...

The peripheralisation of Africa was again evident at this month’s Munich Security Conference – the world’s premier forum on ...

By 1864, more than 12,000 surgeons had served in the Union army throughout the Civil War. Just 14 of them were Black. Historian Jill Newmark's 2023 book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of ...

John Brown held a meeting to discuss liberating slaves via a guerrilla war — just before his infamous raid on Harpers Ferry.

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson leaves behind a movement that lacks a single unifying leader, but his legacy of inclusion could help it carry on.

Ethiopia and Eritrea are once again on the verge of conflict, just a few years after Ethiopia endured a devastating civil war in its northern Tigray ...