Ghanaian leaders likely wore the Kente cloth in the 1700s and 1800s when they were part of the slave trade, but it was not a mark of a slave trader. The cloth took on its modern meaning of black ...

The announcement did not warrant such a visual stunt, but the Democratic Party, the party of optics and gesture, apparently could not resist. On Monday, members of Congress introduced the Justice in ...

play videoThe participants included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and California Sen. Kamala Harris. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, and other top ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers the global popularity of her country's fabric in the wake of it appearing in a Louis Vuitton fashion show.