On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

Africanist, celebrated Ghana's 68th Independence Day with a message of solidarity to Ghanaian people.

As we mark the International Day for ... of people of African descent. This episode of Global Lens examines the pivotal role of the Underground Railroad in establishing African American resistance ...

Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African ... Independence Day has been celebrated ...

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men ... My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's ...

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

Others mentioned that you'll probably want more than a full day to see everything. Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's ...

Police bodycam footage in the United States shows the fatal shooting of an unarmed African American woman ... July 6 as Americans celebrated the Independence Day weekend. The officers searched ...

On this day in 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. made history, stepping into the vastness of space and becoming the first African American astronaut to complete a spacewalk. Floating 130 miles above ...

President Ward Brehm sued the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Thursday over its attempted takeover of the agency a day earlier.  Brehm ...