In addition to emphasizing books on Black resilience, noteworthy memoirs and some of the most anticipated fiction from Black authors, Black History Month is an opportunity to learn about African ...

2008-03-03T05:27:01-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e8f/202392-m.jpgEditors-in-chief Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham talked about African ...

Presenter of BBC's Breakfast as well as past winner of Strictly Come Dancing, Natasha's father was an anti-apartheid campaigner in South Africa who sought political asylum in the UK. The family ...

Below is the introduction to the Dictionary of African Biography, which was co-edited by The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. On November 18, 2011, Professors Emmanuel Akyeampong and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- “Ever heard of Ted Rhodes? There he is, right before Condoleezza Rice.” Harvard historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is paging through the index to the eight-volume African ...

Biographies and memoirs by amazing African women to inspire you this Mother's Day – and any day of the year. What makes a woman amazing? Is it in the way she dominates a boardroom, or the way in which ...

Olaudah Equiano's (c. 1745–1797) much anthologized autobiography is one of the earliest by an English-speaking person of African descent. But was it wholly truthful in its self-portrayal? Carretta, a ...