MASSANGANO, Angola — As the sun beat down on us, we slowly walked down the dirt path, stirring up red dust as we headed toward the centuries-old fort atop a hill here. The chatter hushed. The 21 of us ...

The National Museum of Slavery in Luanda, Angola West Africa reminds that when the first slaves arrived in Virginia, they came from Angola. Shutterstock I returned to Luanda, Angola, to film a ...

Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens ...

In the early hours of a humid November morning in 1975, the runway at Luanda’s airport was alive with anxiety and the roar of a jet engine. Cabinda Gulf Oil, now Chevron, had chartered a South African ...

(LUANDA, Angola) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday, during his diplomatic trip to Angola, acknowledged America’s “original sin” of slavery and the slave trade that once connected the United States and ...

Celebrated Africanist David Birmingham draws on decades of extensive scholarly research, and the 'accidental adventures' that make up his life as an historian, to offer this comprehensive account of ...

As I write these lines, I mourn the passing of Carlos Fernandes, a leading queer activist and organiser in Angola. Carlos was found dead in his home earlier this year under circumstances that are ...

Thanks for the story Jan. 23 written by Debi Springer. It was informative and explained the painstaking work of shovel testing now under way to find pieces of a history puzzle. The diagram shown that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY– Angola has a ...

Angola is woefully undercovered by both academics and journalists, in part because of its Portuguese heritage and in part because civil war and authoritarian politics have discouraged many observers ...