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 […]
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Senegal’s Former Leper Village Struggles To Shake Off Stigma
The Petite Cote, the sun-drenched heart of Senegal’s tourist industry, boasts mile-upon-mile of shimmering Atlantic coastline shaded by towering cocoa palms — and the country’s largest former leper colony. Officially […]
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 […]
Nigeria’s Ethiopians Protest Abuse In Saudi Arabia
While thousands are decrying the reported abuse of Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia, one woman hopes to stir more activism in Africa “I couldn’t sleep. If you see the pictures… […]
It Happened To Me
I got a job in New York City a few years ago. I was new to the American North; I still reeked of the South. Pillsbury biscuits, Georgian peaches and […]
Racism’s Big Comeback In America
Racism’s Big Comeback In America America is returning to what it once was. Unfortunately, I’m not referring to its dominance as the world’s only super power or its economic peak, […]
Cemetery Of African Slaves Honored In Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Wearing full-skirted white dresses and turbans, the religious leaders chanted blessings and sprinkled water on the concrete floor of a modest house near this city’s […]
South Africa Has A Black ‘Idol’
JOHANNESBURG — When Khaya Mthethwa breathed out the last notes of Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass,” a song he had heard for the first time that same day, the judges […]
Hour Of Death…
I do not support the death penalty. I don’t know. I just don’t get it. I don’t understand killing someone in the name of justice. Call me naive, but I […]
Money Answers All Things
Recently, I engaged in an interesting conversation with a friend pertaining to racism and how to get rid of it once and for all. Chomping sweet barbequed morsels of baked […]
Afrocentric Confessions 