Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician whose sound and politics reshaped modern African music, has been named the first African ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first African Climate Summit opened Monday with heads of state and others asserting a stronger voice on a worldwide issue that affects their continent the most even though ...

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange -- a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 -- has advanced another step toward sainthood.

Ed Dwight, a 90-year-old artist and former Air Force test pilot who was denied a chance to become the first African American astronaut six decades ago, finally rocketed into space on Sunday, ...

When the city of Las Vegas announced several years ago plans for an African American museum in the Historic Westside, Gwen Walker cried for three weeks. “When I heard this about the ‘world-class ...

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...

Morocco keep up 100% record in qualifiers Mohamed Salah among scorers as Egypt win DR Congo and Senegal in key showdown on Tuesday CAPE TOWN, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Morocco became the first African ...