The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity ...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

Pope Leo XIV may have been born in Chicago, but he has Creole roots in New Orleans. Why it matters: The new pope, formerly ...

In the aftermath of Pope Francis’ death, many Africans on the continent and in the diaspora wondered if the Catholic Church ...

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Sr Natl Correspondent ...

Multiple outlets reported this week that the maternal grandparents of Robert Prevost were described as people of color in ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President ...

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans family historian, who began digging ...

The complex intersections of public health disparities and reparative justice for African-descended populations have emerged as critical areas of study.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February granting an exception for Afrikaners after suspending the U.S. refugee admissions program.

The Cambridge dictionary defines diaspora as, ‘a group of people who spread from one original country to another country, or ...