Return to Southampton County examines emancipation, United States Colored Troops service, and the unfinished struggle ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will deploy the army to high crime areas to help police in this country that has some of the highest violent crime rates in the world ...

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.

But the costs of this terrible war, already weighing so heavily on Sudanese civilians, will not be contained by Sudan’s borders.

This is the fourth and final in a series of articles by Michigan Advance throughout February celebrating Black History Month.

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

AND I OPENED IT UP AND LOOKED AT IT AND WAS VERY CONFUSED ON WHAT THIS MIGHT BE, AND SHE SAID, THAT’S YOUR ANCESTORS FREEDOM ...

It is a war for control over some of the world’s richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ...

Kool Gatyen Pajock was in a South Sudan hospital while a physiotherapist wrapped bandages around the 18-month-old’s legs under the watchful eye of his grandmother, Nyayual Chuol.

A new report says the Islamic militant groups are ramping up cross-border violence and tightening their grip in parts of Benin, Niger, and Nigeria.

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.