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 ...

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 ...

Vice President Kamala Harris started her Tuesday in Ghana looking toward what the future could hold for Africa-- but on Tuesday afternoon, she looked back at the dark history of slavery on the ...

For many thousands, it was the last glimpse of Africa. Through a door, made narrow so that they would have to walk through in single file, Africans trudged out of the darkness of Ghana’s Elmina Castle ...

Across Africa, from the north of the Sahara to the West African coast sit many relics of the continent's early interactions with Europe. In Ghana, two of the country's most famous spectacles, Elmina ...

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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 ...

"The horror of what happened here must always be remembered," she said. Vice President Kamala Harris started her Tuesday in Ghana looking toward what the future could hold for Africa-- but on Tuesday ...