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Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis granted Ghanaian citizenship. (Photos: Ghana Tourism Authority/Beyond the Return) History was made yesterday as Viola Fletcher, 108 and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 102,…
With tears in their eyes, Viola Fletcher, age 107 and Hughes Van Ellis, aka Uncle Redd, age 100, were finding it hard to say goodbye to Ghana. After a week-long…
For people of African descent whose families were displaced by the tragedy of the trans-Atlantic Slave trade, a trip to the African continent is more than a vacation. It’s a…
There was so much anticipation and emotion while waiting for the flight carrying two survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre to arrive in Accra. In 1921, the area of Greenwood…