Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow has died aged 91. The Calypso King of the World leaves behind a legacy that shaped Caribbean music and culture.

A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

The multi-artist exhibit at Columbia College Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography seeks to illustrate the true cost of racism.

60 years of ‘Star Trek’: A cultural anthropologist on how the show’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” conception helped shape NASA’s vision of the future.

A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.

Half a century on, Jim Henson’s fuzzy felt friends are as influential as Monty Python and the Beatles. It’s been a wild journey of nightclubbing, light operas, duetting with Debbie Harry and tying Joh...

Historian Dr Elise Mitchell re-examines the early history of smallpox inoculation on both ends of the Atlantic slave trade.

Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

A jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Cassandra Lewis’s Benin citizenship reflects a broader push by African countries to reconnect with diaspora descendants

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

U.S. refuses to pay Antigua after losing internet gaming case, sparking international trade dispute concerns.

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

Emergency services said a man was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.

Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary 'Black Zombie' looks at nearly a century of zombie cinema through the lens of cultural appropriation.

The nation’s audacious 1960s rocket programme was met with ridicule. Now, more than 60 years on, this curious episode is inspiring film-makers, playwrights and a circus show at the fringe

Movie still featuring royal family in film adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone Over the past few weeks there’s been a lot of discourse about the film adaptation of Nigerian-American writ…

Podcast Episode · It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton · June 17 · 1h 4m

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future

Replacement of panels with version that’s sympathetic to enslavers comes amid effort by Trump to dismantle diversity initiatives

At London briefing, Caricom Reparations Commission decries fact region remains ‘most colonised part of world’

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