Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

Grammy-winning artist Ciara has been granted citizenship in Benin, becoming one of the first prominent individuals to benefit ...

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...

A recent law passed by the West African country of Benin grants citizenship to anyone who can show they are descended from ...

US singer Ciara became one of the first public figures to be granted Benin citizenship through a new law aimed at offering ...

In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...