‘Historical and unexplored ties between Afro-South Asian communities need cultural attention’
Exploring the Afro-South Asia connection and the untold narratives of the Habshi rulers during the Sultanate period in Bengal, globally…
Black Californians owed over $800B in Reparations … Economists suggest
Black Californians are owed upward of $800 billion due to decades of discriminatory and racist practices that set back generations…
Ancient DNA is restoring the origin story of the Swahili People of the East African Coast
The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilization is a source of extraordinary pride in East Africa, as reflected in its…
Diaspora Group raises alarm over ill-treatment of Nigerians in Cyprus
This was contained in a statement by the NDYA President, Amb. David Victor Alozie in Abuja on Friday, where he…
AP investigates violent arrests of Black men
Several members of a special unit of a Mississippi sheriff’s department that’s being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for…
‘Equality is overdue’: Congressional Black women lead fight for ERA as 28th Amendment
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus spent Monday evening detailing how Black women have been vital in the fight to…
Their stories were lost to slavery. Now DNA is writing them
In the 1700s, a boy was born into slavery in Colonial America. He spent his life working in the coastal…
UI symposium looks at Afro-Brazilian cinema and Black diaspora
Taking Brazil’s new Black cinema as its point of departure, “Frequencias: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora” brings together…