What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

Africa is home to some of the world’s oldest civilizations—nations whose histories span thousands of years, built on foundations of resilience, innovation, and cultural depth. These civilizations have ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of ...

As the cradle of democracy, rational philosophy and theater, Greece laid the foundations of Western thought. It influenced science, art and politics. Its thinkers shaped centuries of knowledge. Its ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: I’m a sucker for a good, engaging, pretty history doc. It’s just who I am. But last month, I became absolutely spellbound by a six-part docu-series called Africa’s Great ...

In the spring of 1900, a group of Greek sponge divers, blown off course by a storm in the Aegean, stumbled upon the wreck of an ancient Roman ship loaded with treasure that had sunk more than 2,000 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)– On a quest to learn more about his history, 35-year-old Emmanuel Kulu from Buffalo got an unexpected surprise when he learned he was a descendant of an African king. “About five ...