An exhibition at New York’s Scandinavia House features art and music by black Americans who moved to northern Europe in ...

While individuals with darker skin, like many African Americans, benefit from higher melanin levels, which provide some natural protection from ultraviolet (UV) radiation, this protection is not ...

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John Hope Franklin, a native of Oklahoma, longtime professor and Professor Emeritus at Duke University as well as Fisk University and Howard University, and prolific scholar of African American ...

“It just feels good to be, to have a connection to an African country as an African-American, as a Black American, right? Because back in America, we don’t have anything to trace our roots to ...

From the influence of West and Central Africans who were trafficked to the city through the transatlantic slave trade, to the influence of African ... pleasure clubs, Baby Dolls, and Skull and ...

The Baby Dolls of New Orleans” and she has co-curated exhibitions about Black masking traditions at The Presbytere and the McKenna Museum of African American Art. Through her research ...

“I first visited Ghana in 2015. From then on, I knew this is a place that I wanted to be and a place where I wanted to show other diasporans, African-Americans, that we have a place where we ...

“I first visited Ghana in 2015. From then on, I knew this is a place that I wanted to be and a place where I wanted to show other diasporans, African-Americans, that we have a place where we ...

6, 2024. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu) African books sit on the bookshelf at the Keachia Bowers and Damon Smith’s family home in Accra, Ghana, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. The family of four relocated to Ghana ...

Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, and most were Black Americans. It was the largest group to be granted citizenship ... Their family relocated to Ghana from ...

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