Pope Francis walks past a portrait of himself as he arrives to meet with young people at the University of Santo Tomas in ...

The news of his death, announced by the Vatican on Monday morning, reverberated across the globe, with people mourning the ...

Several world leaders, including South Africa, Turkey, Iran and Nigeria, have hailed Pope Francis as a man who championed the poor and who was not afraid to pronounce on the genocide taking place in ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just ...

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back ...

Curators and museum officials collaborated with the men who made the spectacular masquerades. "We thought, ‘Let's work with ...

Ernest Cole is famous for photographing the everyday realities of South Africa’s racist apartheid system. His 1967 book House ...

Walking through the entrance feels like stepping into a parallel dimension where everything you never knew you needed awaits ...

Afrobeats may be the hot sound of the moment, but Davido remembers a very recent past when music from Africa wasn’t embraced ...

Lost and Found by Raoul Peck is a meditative film that draws on Cole’s own notebooks and letters in a bold attempt to have ...

Some 70 years after her death, however, she is finally being recognized for her achievements as possibly Canada’s first Black ...