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 Library of Congress’s National Film
Gandhi’s statue has finally been pulled down in Ghana
Two years after a statue of Mohandas ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi was erected at the University of Ghana campus, it has been taken down by school authorities.
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. This, just shy of a
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 of colonial plunder. After a
The little town in Niger keeping the lights on in France
The serious side of the Buhari clone story
Fitting nicely with a recent report that Africans are exposed to more fake news than the average Western media consumer, the Nigerian president recently had to address