Diaspora & Global Africa
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Baby Shower becomes Tragic as Police raid turns fatal
It was just a few days before her baby shower, and Sara White was bleeding inside a garage. When police…
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Shirley Ann Jackson, An African Physicist Of Many Firsts
After earning her Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics, Jackson spent several years of postdoctoral research at various labs across…
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Meet Disney’s First African-American Animator, Floyd Norman
If no one ever told you no, would you think to limit yourself? Floyd Norman's peers were surprised when he…
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2017 U.S. Airstrikes In Somalia May Amount To War Crimes
The United States may have committed war crimes as it bombed al-Shabab militants in Somalia, a new report Amnesty International…
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Belgium’s Africa Museum reopens, as country confronts its violent colonial past
The years-long renovation of Belgium’s grand museum devoted to Central Africa was intended to overhaul an institution that was packed…
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The new scramble for Africa
THE FIRST great surge of foreign interest in Africa, dubbed the “scramble”, was when 19th-century European colonists carved up the continent…
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The Black Africans Who Ruled Europe From 711 To 1789
Black German Scholar, Ulrich Von Hutten in 1517, scolding a Cardinal for misbehaviour. – The Spanish occupation by the Moors…
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‘A white family raised me – I learned to love being black’
Gina Atinuke Knight’s white mum loved her, but her childhood in a white family meant it took her years to…
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1898 Silent Film Is the Earliest Cinematic Depiction of Black Love
The film, Something Good–Negro Kiss, subverts the corrupt racism imbued in the history of American minstrelsy. The film will join the…
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Prada Is the Latest Perpetrator to Peddle Blackface
Here we are, on the cusp of 2019, and major retailers are still playing dumb about racial stereotypes and caricatures.…
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Belgium reopens museum of African history
For more than a century, Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa has stood as a monument to the worst excesses…
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‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ by Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass July 5, 1852 Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing…
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