Artifacts housed in the Barbados Museum, such as branding irons and iron shackles, serve as stark reminders of this harrowing ...

To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa.

Trio of organisations launch initiative to generate carbon credits from African cotton farming; US EPA takes wrecking ball to environmental regulation; CERAWeek: Glo ...

Mali, Africa’s biggest cotton producer, plans to invest in clean energy and tackle issues like child labor and soil health to make its output more competitive in the European market. More than ...

Progress has different meanings for different people. And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans ...

The 350,000-acre Grumeti reserve, abutting the Serengeti in Tanzania, is one of east African conservation’s great success ...

African American influences are so fundamental to American ... in the Mix" National Museum of African American History and Culture Wooden clapper from the Cotton Club promoting Ethel Waters National ...

An innovative partnership unveiled in February 2024 brings together multiple stakeholders—including the IAEA, FIFA, the WTO and UNIDO—aims to support the West African C4+ countries. Enabling the ...

A Kent museum has reopened with new Eastern African and natural history exhibitions. The Powell-Cotton Museum, in Birchington-on-Sea, welcomed the public through its doors last weekend to ...

LaGrange Memorial Library will host an African American cultures celebration to mark Black History Month. The program, titled “A Moment in History,’’ is at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at the library at ...