Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Though veteran MP was eventually allowed to stand for Labour, the dispute has left many black voters despondent

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The United Nations says at least three of every four Africans can’t afford a healthy diet because of an “unprecedented food crisis.”

The dub poet and author of collections including Talking Turkeys has died of a brain tumour

Artist Pogus Caesar's tribute to friend and collaborator Benjamin Zephaniah, who has died.

Smart big awards and prize money Is killing off black poetry It’s not censors or dictators that are cutting up our art. The lure of meeting royalty And touching high society Is damping creativity an...

Mia Mottley tells London audience that King Charles’s comments about slavery’s impact were welcome

Some topics blasted by conservative officials are required in an official Advanced Placement course.

Nihal Arthanayake told a journalism diversity conference in Salford: ‘It’s really affecting me that I walk in and all I see is white people’

Calls grow for independent inquiry after the bank’s internal watchdog found 21 cases of child sexual abuse by teaching staff

Only 17 out of 82 companies investigated were found to use suppliers that paid cocoa farmers enough to live on

Claudia Jones was a natural leader and successfully lobbied for Black people to get jobs in institutions where there was a colour bar

Shea is a key economic crop for poor women in the northern parts of Ghana.

Government says attempt to break into an armoury in Freetown has been repelled and calm restored

Haiti's brutal gang wars have spread from the capital to key farming heartlands, displacing tens of thousands of people and having a devastating impact on access to food staples, the United Nations sa...

Increased military mobilization and belligerent rhetoric are raising the temperature in the Horn of Africa.

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GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, are greatly alarmed by the escalating crisis unfolding once again in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Violen...

Victims reportedly were wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh and speaking in Arabic when they were attacked

More than 13,000 Nigerian villagers can bring legal claims against oil firm, rules high court

The Israeli army says it was mounting a raid in the city of Jenin to capture a Palestinian suspect.

More than 50 people dead in Tigray and Amhara regions while UN warns of ‘crisis-level hunger or worse’ in Somalia

A push is underway to make Jamaica’s Patois an official language, on par with English, as the country weighs cutting ties to the British monarchy.