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

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.

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 ...

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.

Uganda and Tanzania play on December 27 but Kenya and Ethiopia are watching the Africa Cup of Nations from home ...

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 ...

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, ...

1896: John Shippen becomes the first African American to compete in a USGA championship, the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. When the presence of Shippen and Shinnecock tribe member Oscar Bunn was ...

A Walmart employee works during a preview of the first South African Walmart store at Clearwater Mall in Roodepoort, South Africa. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images) The first Walmart store ...