Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The following books highlight different aspects of African American history, from women’s voting rights and systemic inequality to ...

Here are speaker biographies for African Refugee Health: Best Practices. The conference’s nearly three dozen presenters include healthcare workers from across the country and beyond; faculty in ...

Below is the introduction to the Dictionary of African Biography, which was co-edited by The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr. On November 18, 2011, Professors Emmanuel Akyeampong and ...

There are relatively few detailed, firsthand accounts of the 12 million Africans captured and forcibly transported to the Americas in the 400 years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Of the 10 million ...

You are never alone in this world. Reach out and you can always get help. Look around and you’ll find company. Pick up one of these great books and you’ll read about someone whose life was fascinating ...

Renowned historian, Professor Toyin Falola, has emphasized the importance of honest and balanced storytelling in biography writing, underlining the necessity of portraying both the strengths and ...

In 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first black woman to own a pilot’s license. At the turn of the 19th Century, Free Frank McWorter bought his own freedom and that of 16 enslaved African Americans. He ...

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Joel Kibazo, Chairman of the Judging Panel for this year, is a Ugandan staff reporter on the 'Financial Times' in London, where he covers markets and African finance. He has reported from several ...