African diaspora

I love Beyoncé. But more importantly, I really love when members of the global Black diaspora connect with each…

Weruche Opia is the brightest light.

As reports fill our newsfeeds about the bigotry and discrimination Asian people are facing amid the coronavirus…

I am one of the disrespectful negroes who returned to Ghana and left the rest of you unsuspecting negroes back in…

After his his single “Locked Up,” Akon was determined not to be your run-of-the-mill one-hit wonder.

With the nation’s renewed focus on whether or how to compensate black Americans for the evils of generations of chatt…

Angélique Kidjo is an African icon. A musical masterclass. A woman of the world.

In the fifth episode of She’s Gotta Have It’s second season, titled, “SuperCaliFragiSexy,” Nola Darling (DeWanda…

Rwanda just became the latest country to take aggressive action against the widespread practice of skin bleaching,…

Beyoncé memorably managed to incorporate every country in Africa into her onstage attire while headlining the Global…

It’s amazing to think that there was a time, not so long ago, that we exclusively relied on our words and facial…

I don’t know about you, but I’m dragging a bit this morning. Since we’re a day late for #MondayMotivation, how about…

My mother and I recently decided to do DNA kits together in honor of Mother’s Day. (Please don’t @ me with warnings…

Members of the African Diaspora converged into downtown Miami on April 13 and 14 to celebrate Afro-Latino…

On Sunday night, I sat in a crowded room in Canal Olympia Téranga, the only movie theater in Dakar, Senegal, that…

Last year I went on a tour of Western Europe in search of a city that I could potentially call home. I went to…

It’s been nearly a year since Ulysses Burley III first coined the term “Blaxit,” a tongue-in-cheek hypothetical…

Daniel Kaluuya has a few words for Samuel L. Jackson about being black. Last week Jackson questioned why Kaluuya, a…

How was your first helping of the holiday meals? Did you go in on all of your favorites when you went home for the…

I’m black and have always identified as such, and until recently, I never questioned exactly what that meant. Having…