African Americans often refer to the African continent as the "motherland." My trip to Ghana included a tour of a slave ...

Cape Coast, known as the heart of tourism in Ghana, has been plagued by a disturbing issue that threatens to undermine its rich history and cultural significance. The Cape Coast Castle, a UNESCO World ...

Duwon Steven Clark is standing on the white rock patio, just to the right of the now-silent cannons of Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle, trying to get himself around a memory he never had. Clark, a 21-year ...

The vice president visited a castle that was one of the last stops before enslaved people were transported across the Atlantic. "The horror of... Vice President Harris wiped away tears as she toured ...

The nation's first Black vice president said the "anguish that reeks from this place" must never be forgotten, slighting U.S. lawmakers who have worked to suppress discussions of race in classrooms ...

When I was 12 or 13 and living in Frankfurt, Germany, my parents loaded my siblings and me into the car and we drove about four hours south and east to a small-ish town in the Bavarian region that was ...

The vice president will meet with leaders of Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia. Kamala Harris, the first Black U.S. vice president, on Saturday begins a historic first trip while in office to Africa, with ...

Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost’s dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and ...

Vice President Harris wiped away tears as she toured the dungeons of Ghana's Cape Coast slave castle on Tuesday, and said the experience underscored that the history of enslaved people must be taught ...