The Black Queens remain firmly focused on booking their place in the quarterfinals of the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of ...

The West Africans are one of the most recognizable nations at the helm of African Football. As far back as the 1990s, Ghana was vying for a place on the global stage when FIFA introduced the Women’s ...

WAFCON is in full swing, and Africa’s top football queens are already stealing the show. From game-changing goals to timely ...

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Season 1 of African Queens looks at Njinga, the 17th century warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba. The show, which is narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith, is a mix of dramatic recreations and interviews ...

With "African Queens: ... One of Africa's most famous warrior queens, Amina of Zaria, is said to have inspired a certain Warrior Princess who conquered popular culture in the late '90s.

African Queens picks up in early 17th-century Ndongo (now part of modern-day Angola) amid particularly troubled times; the Portuguese, with their insatiable hunger for slaves, ...

On Sunday, the Grammy-winning soprano Karen Slack will give the third annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Recital at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. “African Queens,” presented and co ...

EXCLUSIVE: Blockbuster hits Black Panther and The Woman King have cleared the path for Netflix to succeed with Jada Pinkett Smith-narrated docu-drama African Queens, according to the show’s exec ...

Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House.

“African Queens,” presented and co-commissioned by Washington Performing Arts, is about as ambitious as a recital could get: It looks back on Black ancestry with a thematic focus on great ...