Browsing: Africa

In this clip from 1968, poet and civil rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou shares valuable insights during one of her episodes of the series “Blacks, Blues,…

Timothy Grimes, better known by his stage name Wise Intelligent, shares valuable insights on how hip-hop shifted from having a positive impact on Black youth to…

Songwriters are to recording artists what shadows are to people, often unacknowledged in the background. Born in Brooklyn in 1931, Otis Blackwell was a prolific songwriter…

“I’m grateful that we were finally rescued, but the scars of that time are still with me,” is a harrowing sentiment from one of the Ghanaian…

In this viral video, we see Uber passenger Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, lunging forward and attacking driver Shohel Mahmud, 45, using pepper spray. The driver said he…

Halloween is a time for donning scary costumes, but some Canadians went overboard. After four people showed up wearing Ku Klux Klan-style white hoods, robes and…

‘I will continue to support Israel,’ said professional boxer Floyd Mayweather during a recent visit to Orthodox Jewish students in Israel. That remark and this photo…

In another display of the flaws of the current global political order, the US blockade on Cuba will remain in place, despite UN members overwhelmingly voting…

The US presidential election is taking place in less than a week, on 5 November, so candidates are rushing to secure last-minute votes by holding campaign…

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for quoting the Bible to justify Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza, as well as its…