This week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit could not have come at a more opportune moment. The first since President Barack Obama hosted African leaders in 2014, it is taking place against the backdrop of ...

When Nick Checker, the State Department’s Senior Bureau Official for African Affairs, recently made a statement expounding on what an “America First” agenda means in Africa, he promised “insight and ...

The SC Infantry of African Descent historic marker now has a new, more visible home right when you enter the city of Beaufort ...

Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old artist and former Air Force test pilot who was denied a chance to become the first African American astronaut six decades ago, finally rocketed into space on Sunday, ...

View of American broadcast journalist Max Robinson (1939 - 1988) at a desk in the newsroom at ABC Studios, Chicago, Illinois, June 1, 1979. At the time, he was the co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight.

The First African Baptist Church is the oldest black church in North America and first brick structure owned by African Americans in the state of Georgia George Liele was born into slavery in 1750 in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first African Climate Summit opened Monday with heads of state and others asserting a stronger voice on a worldwide issue that affects their continent the most even though ...

1896: John Shippen becomes the first African American to compete in a USGA championship, the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. When the presence of Shippen and Shinnecock tribe member Oscar Bunn was ...