Just a tiny percentage of Africans shipped to the New World landed in North America.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. describes the man who inspired his 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro series.

Spanish Florida was the African-American slaves’ first Promised Land.

A report shows too few U.S. high-schoolers know about the Civil Rights movement.

As a literary scholar and cultural historian who has spent a lifetime searching out African Americans' lost, forgotten and otherwise unheralded tales, I was honored to serve as a historical consultant on Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave," most certainly one of the most vivid and authentic portrayals of slavery ever captured in a feature film.