At the end of the three day meeting, the women participants and representatives of over 400 black women’s organizations adopted a political strategy, timed to coincide with the International Decade for People of African Descent ...

Among the other presidential visitors were George H.W. Bush in 1992 (to Somalia to visit relief workers and military personnel) and Jimmy Carter who was the first U.S. President to make a formal state visit to Liberia and Nigeria in 1978. ...

The tombs, treasures of Timbuktu, date back to the 13th century in some cases. The saints were renowned for their scholarship as well as their piety, and their memorials formed part of the Timbuktu World Heritage Site, the Unesco list ...

At a meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Secretary of State John F. Kerry this week pledged an extra $45 million for the U.N. ...

Prize-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is hoping to break down some stereotypes at the upcoming World Voices Festival sponsored by the PEN America free expression group. ...

A video that caught an Israeli police officer and a volunteer shoving and punching a black soldier in uniform outraged members of the Ethiopian Jewish community and set off a clash Sunday ...

Boko Haram, fleeing to a new hideout, has abandoned hundreds of women and girls in the Sambisa forest where the high school girls from Chibok were initially taken over one year ago. ...

"This fight is very important to me and in boxing history," Pacquiao admitted at the opening press conference. "We don't want to leave a question mark in the mind of boxing fans." ...

(CNN)Two new accounts of what happened to Freddie Gray in his encounter with police have emerged -- threads that could offer clues as to where and when the man whose death sparked protests in Baltimore was fatally injured. The first comes from a relative of one of the officers involved in the arrest. She told CNN the officer thinks Gray was injured while he was being arrested -- before he was put inside a p ...

On Earth Day, Apr. 22, Kenyan activist Phyllis Omido will take the stage in Washington DC to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize for her efforts to defend her community from lead poisoning and force the closure of a lead smelting plant that was emitting fumes ...