This serious read, part of Regnum’s Global Voices series, originated as a PhD thesis in Portuguese. It challenges long-held ...

Robert Goldsborough, a Maryland lawmaker, rose one Friday early in 1826 to clinch what he fancied a good deal for his state. Goldsborough informed his fellow legislators that a private entity had ...

Kunta Kinte: What’s snow, Fiddler? Fiddler: Never you mind, boy, never you mind. Let’s get on back to home. I got enough trouble teaching you the difference between manure and massa. ‘Course there ain ...

Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page, Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, University of Missouri Press, 2011, 164 pp., $28.00 (softcover) Abraham ...

1860: Fernando J. Moreno, the U.S. Marshal at Key West, submitted a report to the Secretary of the Interior about the Africans delivered to him by the U.S. Navy. He reported he had received a total of ...

Donald Trump’s praise of his Liberian counterpart, Joseph Boakai, prompted criticism and offense in the country. Liberia was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society whose goal was to ...

President Donald Trump asked the President of Liberia, where English is the official language, where he learned to speak it “so beautifully” during a lunch with African leaders at the White House on ...

"Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" Trump asked Liberia's President Joseph Boakai JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Donald Trump complimented the English of President Joseph Boakai of Liberia, a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for his strong grasp of the English language on Wednesday. But the African leader was educated in Liberia, where English is the ...