Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy to Africa
BY LOU SIFA January 20 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a national holiday in the United States to celebrate the memory of the iconic civil rights leader who was … Read More
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Tracing ancestry is not easy for African Americans
BY BILL O’BOYLE WILKES-BARRE —What’s in a name? Everything, that’s what. Just ask Kwaku King Adjei-Frimpong. We’ll call him King because that’s the name he uses. King, 29, is the … Read More
African Americans who hate to be called African Americans
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Black American actress, comedian, singer, social critic and television personality Whoopi Goldberg recently re-ignited the depressing debate about black Americans who don’t like to be identified as African … Read More
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson cancels trip to Africa
BY JULIE WHITE Citing security concerns, the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson stated Thursday that the retired neurosurgeon’s trip that was supposed to take him to Kenya, Nigeria … Read More
Why scholars emphasize the need for affirmative action
BY KALPANA JAIN Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, during oral arguments in the affirmative action case, Fisher v University of Texas, on Wednesday, December 9, suggested, There are those who contend that … Read More
Quebec to rename sites with names containing the “N” word
BY LISA FRENCH In a news release on Friday, a provincial commission in Quebec, Canada, announced that it had “de-officialized” the names of eleven Quebec sites that contain the word … Read More
African women to be honored during a high-profile Awards Gala dinner in New York
BY LISA FRENCH This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Fourth Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, when 189 countries signed an action plan aimed at …
The African at twenty-five
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Before I took advantage of a high-profile, glamorous event held at the Washington, D.C. Sheraton hotel on October 6, 1994 to launch The African Magazine, a publication … Read More
Announcing Ambassador Erieka Bennett’s new book: Just Be: Aging Gracefully
In her third book, JUST BE: AGING GRACEFULLY, Ambassador Erieka Bennett seeks to impart wisdom she has gained in living life fully, unapologetically and magically for 65 years. With an … Read More
Serena lifts us up again… big time
BY KOSSI GBEDIGA By winning once again four consecutive Grand Slam titles this year, twelve years after she first did so, tennis superstar Serena Williams is already being dubbed “the … Read More