The Audacious Blackness of Muhammad Ali
As the world remembers “The Greatest” boxing champion who ever lived, Muhammad Ali, I remember his audacious black pride. With his gloves and his lyrical prowess, he showed the world […]
Category Archives: Race
The Afro-German Experience Under Hitler
January 27 is the UN’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Commemorated to remember the liberation of Auschwitz, largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers But I am writing this […]
TAIYE SELASI: I Am Not My Hair
I leapt from high-maintenance hair to an all-natural crop—and found a tangle of emotion and politics caught up in all the curls. Recently my best friend, Heather McGhee—the […]
Portraits: Former slaves in America
January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. To commemorate the occasion, new photos have been released showing some of the men and women […]
Fighting Slavery in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian-based anti-slavery activist group recently released its 2014 Global Slavery Index, detailing the status of 167 countries with regard to each country’s […]
The International Criminal Court must fix its anti-African image
Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta has become the first-ever sitting president to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He faces charges of direct involvement in the violence that followed the […]
International Blackness vs. Homegrown Negroes: Lupita, Chimamanda, Thandie and me
Debate about skin tone is often cyclical and absolute — light skinned equals privilege, dark equals rejected. “She is very white!” Revered Swedish film critic Jannike Ahlund watches a clip […]
Everyday Racist Treatment Of Africans Abroad
Many Africans leave their majority Black countries with naïve notions of race and racism, and the realisation that someone else sees them as less than human simply because of the […]
Racism Accelerates Aging In African-American Men, New Study Suggests
Scientists have long known that experiencing racism is bad for your health. In fact,racial discrimination has been linked to depression, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and the common cold among other […]
Traveling While Black
As I walked through the Forbidden City, the majestic imperial palace at the center of Beijing, with a friend and her teenager, I scanned the crowd. In the maze of […]
Afrocentric Confessions 