Explore the East Side neighborhood where artist Edward Bannister and his entrepreneur wife, Christiana Carteaux, mingled with ...

Drawing on her journeys across the continent, Bozoma Saint John translates African beauty traditions into a modern, ...

Benin has foiled a coup attempt, the interior minister said, after armed soldiers went on national television to say they had taken over the West African country and ousted its president, Patrice ...

Some groups of such as middle-aged, low-income white people, have seen death rate surges of up to 25 percent in a handful of years. This has never been seen in a developed country (let alone the ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

This story appears in the February 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Each February, in observance of Black History Month in the United States, we revisit the stories of notable African ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Marcus Garvey designed the African ...

An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

Day 1 of 12 Days of Slay. Black Castor Miracle Braid, Loc & Twist Gel. PHOTO COURTESY OF FACEBOOK Atlanta, GA – African Pride, a ...

Jack Black gifts us an extremely silly flight of fancy set in a right-angled world, and Hugh Grant has the time of his life in the most perfect movie ever made. Plus: mulled wine in film form!

“Quilting is mostly singing,” according to Nettie Young of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Like singing, quilting is often a communal activity. Quilters gather to cut, piece, and stitch layers of fabric together ...

If you’ve gone on an African safari, chances are you’ve heard of the Big Five, the must-see list of iconic megafauna. The term, coined in the late 1800s during Africa’s colonial period, refers to what ...