Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, rather ...

A new biography of Audley Moore shows how pivotal the overlooked activist’s work was to 20th-century Black-liberation efforts ...

Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver ...

The Caribbean stands at the crossroads of world history, yet most people only see it as a vacation destination with beaches ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

Historians have shown that, during the 1800s, beads produced in Venice were a key commodity exchanged for ivory along the ...

South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt paced the hosts with a superb innings of 124 at the top of the order, while in-form ...

Last year, a team of American diplomats from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center traveled to two dozen countries ...

South African authorities raided a U.S. refugee facility in the county, briefly detaining U.S. staff who have been processing ...

The continent has a vast history spanning thousands of years, and one place has fended off invaders for the most part.

Since pandemic-fueled anti-Asian hate surged in 2020, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander advocates have ...