The pontiff’s journey to the world’s poorest continent will demonstrate his urgent focus on the most vulnerable members of ...

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa comes at a moment of deep global tension, as wars, inequality and religious divisions intensify ...

As Pope Leo XIV makes his first apostolic journey to Africa April 13-23, some scholars of the Church's past are hoping he won ...

While the Black experience is muted in Arkansas’s “Before Us, Beyond Us” exhibit on display at the Old State House Museum, ...

Students in the course conducted original research that contributed to the landmark exhibit “‘Nursery of Rebellion’: ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced a promised gift, the “African Ceremonies” collection, that ...

Security studies in the context of African societies have traditionally concentrated on externally imposed paradigms, often overlooking the continent’s ...

Since 2018, the American Women's History Initiative Pool has funded more than 200 projects across the Smithsonian, supporting research, collections, and programming that make women's history visible ...

Sunday mornings in Detroit carried a certain kind of spirit when Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard was on the air. Her voice did more than introduce songs. It taught history, honored Black faith traditions, ...

In the Serengeti, the two major groups responsible for this “non extinction” are the original groups of African hunter ...

The disappearance of a Berlin marker linked to the 1884 Berlin Conference has triggered global concern. Experts urge ...

The project sees Professor Jennifer Putzi and her students transcribe and encode diaries written by 19th and 20th century ...