When I stepped onto the pebble-paved pathways of Senegal's Gorée Island, I saw bright-pink flowers along vines that wrapped around the tops of purple doorways. Children laughed and played soccer ...

The HBCU Green Fund, led by founder Felicia Davis, during Black History Month participated in a week-long women’s economic ...

You wouldn’t know it, but there’s a gallery at the Wagner Foundation, on the second floor of an unassuming office building in ...

Gorée Island, a small island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, is believed to have been a 'key stop for thousands and thousands of slaves on their brutal journey to the Americas' throughout the ...

It offers a mix of history, culture, and beaches. Visit the famous Gorée Island for a lesson on African heritage, explore the Pink Lake (Lac Rose), or enjoy the nightlife in Dakar. Barbados is a ...

The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...

In 1793, in response to this demand, successful merchants built the Goree Warehouses, named after Senegal's Goree Islands off the coast of Africa. When fire destroyed the buildings in 1802 ...

They also visited historical and environmental sites, including Gorée Island's House of Slaves and the Door of No Return, a solemn memorial to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade ...