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Analysis - Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred ...
Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist who engages with the histories and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism at home and, increasingly, internationally, on ...
Sankofa is mystical bird centuries old from the Akan tribe in Ghana. It carries a message to remember your history to build a ...
The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...
Beyond the artistry of the couture, this year’s theme brought fashion to the forefront of cultural representation.
A certain resistance to discussion about the toll of American slavery isn’t confined to the least savory corners of the Internet. Last year, in an unsigned (and now withdrawn) review of ...
When one thinks of slavery in North America, one often thinks of the brutal chattel slavery primarily perpetrated against Black people of African descent in the American South, but Canada has its own ...
Anyone interested in searching the Fairfax Court Slavery Index should contact the Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center at 703-246-4168 or historicalrecords@f… A local college student is ...
"This immense level of overspending will drive America into debt slavery!" Musk declared early on Wednesday in a post on X. He later flagged a message from the personal account of Utah Sen.
But the daguerreotypes of an African man known as Renty and his daughter Delia have been at the centre of a years-long legal dispute over the legacy of slavery and those who profit from it.
The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed. A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown ...
Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...