Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?
To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated.
How do white South African writers confront the country's as well as their own pasts?
Activists in the occupied territories reinvent the Freedom Rides of 1960s America and in the process link US and Palestinian struggles for liberation.
Reflections from New Orleans, Louisiana—the US's most African city—on the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.
A new thriller by Andrew Welsh-Huggins follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a Somali-American teenager in Ohio.
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Lines of Descent (2014) argues that W. E. B. Du Bois’s two years as a graduate student in Berlin vitally informed his views on race and politics.
The TV series "Watchmen" deserves credit for how it put unsung elements of black history into mainstream culture.
Black popular culture has gained two new heroes in Queen & Slim—a film about desperate violence.
Staff writer Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
Historian Peter Cole’s book on dockworkers in apartheid South Africa and San Francisco gets beyond slogans to vital historical truths.
The Nigerian-American writer, Tope Folarin, wrestles with blackness and black immigrant identity in his new novel.
Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa.
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.
A radical critique of the discourse on terrorism and, specifically, of repeated Israeli and US claims to moral superiority in the fight against “terrorism,” is long overdue.
Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.
Ed Pavlic's new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.
An US congressional delegation to Eritrea—the first in 14 years—which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?
Ozier Muhammad captures, for black American audiences, the expressive possibilities of Africa's liberation struggles.