March 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into ...

HAMPTON, Virginia ‒ As a child, Djimon Hounsou played soccer on the beaches of his native Benin, a small country in West Africa. He didn't know then that those same beaches had been a “path of no ...

Months after federal cuts threatened the future of the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, one of the nation’s oldest Black historical archives, the organization has raised enough money to stay ...

For decades, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has served as one of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, from 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s to a ...

NEW ORLEANS — One of the country’s most important Black history archives is facing an uncertain future. The Amistad Research Center, located on the campus of Tulane University, has lost 40% of its ...

One of the nation’s oldest and most significant archives of Black history, the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has collected and cared for millions of historical documents and artifacts over ...

NEW HAVEN — An organization that manages and offers lessons aboard a replica schooner of the original La Amistad ship that played host to a historic slave revolt is warning that it may shutter its ...

NEW YORK – Babies, movies and a pandemic. Life came at the band OK Go pretty quickly. "The next thing we knew, it had been like eight years since our last record and we got to work making one," lead ...

OK Go are back with more proof that they remain the masters of power-pop gems and high-concept music videos with the kaleidoscopic visual for their new single, “Love.” “Love” is a charming, yet ...

OK Computer was very much a product of its time. The late 1990s was an era of immense growth, especially in terms of technology and digital landscapes. Where one might find a positive in that change, ...

John Warner Barber’s ‘Death of Capt. Ferrer,’ 1839. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La ...