africa
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Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Says Everyone Descends From Africa
Some students from Texas State University in San Marcos got up and left their lecture hall after their professor, Jon McGee, said that all people originated from Africa, The Tab reports. Apparently the day’s lesson was supposed to be on race. He began talking about the Black Lives Matter movement and how it had come about…
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Who’s Black in America: Cape Verde
Who’s Black in America? That’s the question we at The Root are asking—and answering—as we take a look at the various nations throughout the African Diaspora whose immigrants make up the black population in the United States. In this new video series, we’ll examine these populations that are often mentioned, but whose rich history is rarely…
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Ivory Coast Men Outed, Forced to Flee Homes After US Embassy Posts Photo
At least four Ivorian men were forced to flee their homes after the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, posted a photo of them signing a condolence book for victims of the mass shooting that killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the photo…
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Things As "African" As Meryl Streep And Bill Clinton Are All Of A Sudden Claiming To Be
Sometime during an international film festival, in response to an inquiry about a quite caucasian jury being able to evaluate and understand North African films, Meryl Streep decided to go full hotep and inform us that “we’re all Africans really.” That clink you hear is the sound of Lady Meryl officially falling off the list of…
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African-ish: Can You Pass Citizenry Down Through Generations?
When I was watching the first episode of Black-ish, I felt a certain level of understanding of Anthony Anderson’s worry of his kids retaining their culture/identity/hood pass, as I’m sure most of us did. For me though, it extends beyond the “black in America” experience. As a first generation child of East Africans, what becomes…