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The Memphis church pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.'s final days suffers a devastating fire
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...
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A vanished kingdom comes alive in the songs of griots and a new archaeological dig
The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired ...
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Zimbabwe’s stone carvers seek a revival amid Oxford exhibition
A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained men in gold mines, and a pregnant ...
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10 items of colonial loot Africa would quite like back now, please
The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...
Museum’s Benin Bronzes Are Reclaimed by Wealthy Collector
The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...
See historic bronzes displayed in MFA’s prized — and now doomed — Benin Kingdom Gallery
The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...
Wealthy banking scion who rescinded gift of MFA’s African bronzes is a collector — and maker — of art
Robert Owen Lehman, whose forebear co-founded finance giant Lehman Bros., collected music manuscripts, directed movies, and ...
A Nigerian Sculptor Reflects on All the Land Contains
Over the past 20 years, the Nigerian-born Nkanga, 50, has explored the idea of rock, and by extension the land that sheds it, ...
Women from the Bronze Age already carried heavy loads on their heads, skeletal analysis finds
An interdisciplinary study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) reveals that women living in the region of ...