Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has once again tried to distance himself from his long-time pastor and mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose comments about a government conspiracy to commit ...

It wasn’t long after Netflix released its “Queen Cleopatra” documentary on May 10 that Egyptians were outraged. The movie depicts Queen Cleopatra, who has Greek origins, as African – backing ...

I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, where I was the top-ranked singles player on my prep school's tennis team and obsessed with rap music by Run-DMC, LL Cool J and KRS-One. But I felt like I was ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. IN 1993, DR. YOSEF A. A. BEN-JOCHANNAN, WHO WAS ADVERtised as ""a distinguished Egyptologist'' although he is not a ...

Sociology makes for strange bedfellows in Amy J. Binder’s Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton University Press). Afrocentrism and creationism have ...

A new exhibit in a Dutch museum explores how Black musicians have drawn inspiration and pride from the idea that ancient Egypt was an African culture. Egyptians say it distorts their history and ...

Over the last 500 years Christianity in Africa, and in most countries with people of African ancestry, has been charged with outright racism (when non-blacks headed the hierarchy within denominations) ...

Education in Africa is based on post-colonial curriculums whose content taught little and often skewed African history and culture and its place in the world. We went to the Children in Freedom School ...