Cassandra Lewis awaits approval from West African nation while reflecting on her great-great-grandfather Cudjo Lewis's ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...

Grammy-winning artist Ciara has been granted citizenship in Benin, becoming one of the first prominent individuals to benefit ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

It was one of the biggest pirate heists in history; 300 years later, Cape Cod archaeologists think they've found the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a ...