Boris Kodjoe, who plays Captain Robert Sullivan on TV drama “Station 19,” shares how he reconnected with his Ghana heritage during a trip he took there with his family . As seen on California Live on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020.

Cardi B’s announcement that she wants to seek Nigerian citizenship has set off a Twitter feud between her West African fans in friendly rivals Nigeria and Ghana. The Grammy-winning rapper visited both countries last month on her African tour. Her announcement in a tweet on Friday criticized the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and...

A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. The study published Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal says women in Nigeria, Myanmar, Ghana and Guinea also experienced high rates of cesarean...

This week, Americans across the country have united to cheer on local contestants participating in the orthographic sport known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A field of roughly 11 million students nationwide pared down to 562 spellers at the start of the national competition Tuesday. Roughly a dozen spellers will advance to the prime-time finals Thursday night. The winner...

Does the money collected through Facebook’s fundraising function actually make it to the organizations? Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2019.

A Virginia man has been charged with swindling women in the Kansas City area and across the country out of more than $5 million in a romance fraud scheme.

Melania Trump walked out the infamous “Door of No Return” at a onetime slave-trade outpost Wednesday and gazed over the crashing ocean waves that carried millions of Africans to lives of servitude. She later called her visit “a solemn reminder of a time in our history that should never be forgotten.” “It’s very emotional,” she said. “The dungeons that I...

Two secretaries-general and diplomats from the world that Kofi Annan served for nearly 45 years paid tribute to him at the United Nations Friday, but the most moving words were from his wife and son who urged people everywhere to continue his fight for a fairer and peaceful planet. The ceremony in the General Assembly hall where the U.N.’s 193...

On Friday following a 14-year absence from late-night television, iconic R&B, dance and pop singing superstar Janet Jackson marked her return with a memorable performance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with non-other than the man who put Reggaeton music on the map, Mr. Daddy Yankee himself.

Hirving Lozano scored from about 14 yards out to give Mexico a shock 1-0 win over Germany, the defending World Cup champions. Lozano took a pass from Javier Hernandez and got around Mesut Ozil and had a clear path to the net in the 35th minute. It was his eighth international goal. Both teams had many chances in the open-ended...

Park rangers in the world’s top cocoa producer, Ivory Coast, are waging a campaign to protect national forests from the illegal farming of the raw ingredient in chocolate. Last year the governments of Ivory Coast and other top cocoa producer Ghana, along with food giants Nestle, Mars and Hershey, pledged to work together to end deforestation in the West African...

Erin Jackson is the rawest of Olympic rookies. As a kid careering around roller rinks in Florida, she never dreamed of gold. She just loved going fast on wheels, earning the well-deserved nickname “Speedy.” Spotted by an inline coach one day, Jackson was soon on a team and spent 15 years piling up titles and traveling the world.

“Black Panther” fans filmed a video message explaining what the movie means to them, which they thought would air on “The Tonight Show” Wednesday. What they didn’t know was that Boseman was behind the curtain, waiting to surprise them along with Jimmy Fallon.

A 17-year-old Virginia skater is the first black woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic speedskating team.

Erin Jackson surprised herself and almost everyone else at the U.S. speedskating trials, becoming a first-time Olympian after just four months on ice.

Gigi Hadid chats with Jimmy Fallon about her obsession with Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, being Glamour’s Woman of the Year and using her Stewart Weitzman shoe lines, the EyeLove and EyeLoveMore, to build new schools in Guatemala, Ghana and Laos.

A 59-year-old woman who had tried for nearly four decades to become pregnant has given birth at a New York hospital after fertility treatments.

Baby Sofia’s parents were filming when the 9-month-old girl found a piece of lettuce during dinner and decided to give it a try. Her reaction was priceless. Parents Joonho Song and Alice Kim – originally from New York but now living in Honolulu – said Sofia normally has a reaction to tasting new food, but this was the funniest.

As the Scripps National Spelling Bee has become increasingly difficult, spellers are less likely to come out of nowhere and hoist the trophy. There’s more information available about kids in the bee, and champion spellers have increasingly fit a familiar profile. For them, the bee is an all-consuming, year-round pursuit....
“There’s definitely an established set of favorites, and as you have...