The nation's first Black vice president said the "anguish that reeks from this place" must never be forgotten, slighting U.S. lawmakers who have worked to suppress discussions of race in classrooms ...

ACCRA (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech to thousands of young Ghanaians on Tuesday in Accra on women's empowerment, and toured a coastal building that was the last stop ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. “More than 400 years ago one race was subjected to one of the worst atrocities to ever happen on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prince Tete, a local, leans against a fence of a mass grave at the Assin Praso heritage site, Ghana. (Photo: Siphiwe ...

A new study-abroad program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, takes students to Ghana, in part, to explore slave castles and other historic sites related to the trans-Atlantic slave ...

Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost’s dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and ...

Steve Harvey appears to break down during the tour of the slave castles in Ghana in West Africa (Photo: YouTube/Official Steve Harvey) Entertainment mogul Steve Harvey admitted he broke down in tears ...

Scores of African Americans made a pilgrimage to Ghana last year to mark the 400th anniversary of the start of the transatlantic slave trade that brought Africans to these shores. By some reports, the ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture opens in Washington D.C. next month. The work of two area photographers will be featured as part of that opening. Photographer Doug ...

Mayor-elect Eric Adams made an emotional visit Thursday morning to Elmina Castle, the first European slave-trading post in sub-Saharan Africa — located on the west coast of present-day Ghana. Adams, ...

ADIDWAN, Ghana — Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his uncle, remembering the man he loved but also a past that has haunted his family for generations. His uncle was called Kwame Badu, a name that ...