Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb is a huge supporter of Black History Month and lessons that introduce young people to the lives and work of national ...

Rancho Santa Fe’s Bela Gowda is doing her part to share the love of reading with students a world away through the African Library Project. At 15 years old, Bela has been working for the Africa ...

The Brooklyn Museum has announced two new appointments to the Curatorial Affairs team. Ernestine White-Mifetu has been appointed Sills Foundation curator of African Art, and Abigail L. Dansiger has ...

In its first exhibit on the “diversity and excellence” of African literature, Doe Library invites visitors on a tour of literature across sub-Saharan Africa. More than 50 people attended the launch to ...

When he came to New York to study photography five years ago, he found a trove of images of life in Africa, past and present, in the archives of the city’s libraries, galleries and museums. Here he ...

In a quiet neighborhood of Adenta stands a bright yellow house behind a tall black gate. Before entering, visitors are invited to pause and read The Tenderness Manifesto by Mbella Sonne Dipoko. It ...

A local group with the goal of constructing a public library near Monrovia, the capital city of the West African country of Liberia, got one step closer with a recent visit to the future building site ...

The African American Library at the Gregory School isn’t your typical library. In place of books available to borrow, the Fourth Ward library offers a view into Houston’s past through archives. The ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

LaFayette library hosts traveling exhibit on African American Georgia writers, featuring Alice Walker, Jean Toomer, and ...