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Discovery channel acquires majority stake in Oprah’s Own TV network

12/06/2017

BY ALAN GREEN In a deal announced Monday, Maryland-based Discovery channel is paying communications mogul Oprah Winfrey $70 million to acquire a stake in Oprah’s basic channel Own. Prior to … Read More

Culture Diaspora Highlights North America

Movie star Djimon Hounsou to play Gbêhanzin, the last king of pre-colonial Danxomê

06/03/2015

BY LOU SIFA In an interview with reporter Kam Williams posted on the web on January 30, 2009, Djimon Hounsou, the American movie star originally from Benin (previously Danxomê), West … Read More

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Wilfred Gray’s thirst to bond with motherland Africa

Cana, a neglected piece of Black History

The power of a song in a strange land

Ambassador Erieka Bennett, a die-hard bridge-builder

Kaleidoscope Beauty, a U.K.-based African jewelry brand, launches a new collection

Remembering African American media pioneer John H. Johnson

Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

Tracing ancestry is not easy for African Americans

#neverforget #alwaysremember (in celebration of Black History Month)

Sudanese Canadian writer Amr Muneer Dahab’s brave move to denounce the ‘supremacy’ of the novel

Category: North America

Discovery channel acquires majority stake in Oprah’s Own TV network

Movie star Djimon Hounsou to play Gbêhanzin, the last king of pre-colonial Danxomê

Wilfred Gray’s thirst to bond with motherland Africa

Cana, a neglected piece of Black History

The power of a song in a strange land