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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

HAMPTON, Virginia – Angolan Ambassador Joaquim do Espírito Santo walked quietly down the path along the Chesapeake Bay. He and his delegation stopped at the lone sign marking where enslaved Angolans ...

Early one morning in late September, the hum of a metal detector fills the air in a sparse field. A man in a plastic face shield and blue armored vest is crouched near the ground, scanning the wand ...

BRADENTON, Fla. — Daphney Towns came to Bradenton from The Bahamas in 1992 to train as a missionary, however, she would find another important calling two decades later. Towns said she had a vision ...

WASHINGTON – Angola’s President João Lourenço toured the nation’s premiere museum of African American history on Monday, calling its exhibit on slavery and the Middle Passage “profoundly emotional.’’ ...