Jamaica is on a trajectory to sever ties with King Charles III as its head of state by 2025, announced the nation’s State Minister in the...
By Gregory Simpkins Members of the African Diaspora in North America are justifiably concerned about racism in our backyard, so to speak. The existence of “Karens”...
By Gregory Simpkins In December 2010, an incident in Tunisia sparked a youth-led revolt that had an impact far beyond the country’s borders. The so-called Arab...
AP | The House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists...
When Colombians on Sunday elected their first leftist president ever, they also voted for their country’s first Black vice-president. Francia Márquez, a Black single mother who...
Excitement and anticipation loom large regarding President Biden’s choice. Who will it be?
Sidney Poitier always insisted on playing smart, poised and thoughtful African and African American characters.
The survivors were carted off in cattle trucks to concentration camps in Swakopmund, Lüderitz, and Windhoek, where many were beaten and raped, and thousands died from...
AP | Duke Slater was so good the NFL couldn’t keep him out. For a Black player in the 1920s and ’30s, that was a remarkable...
Pressure mounted on University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe to resign and the board of curators was set to meet Monday as the university’s black football...
By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne This week’s Newsweek magazine cover features an image of a chimpanzee behind the words, “A Back Door for Ebola:...
By Christopher E. Smith Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Getty Images When I heard that my 21-year-old son, a student at Harvard, had been stopped by New York...
Absurd as it may be, America’s economy could be in its current ‘malaise’ simply because the President is black. And more than anything else, it may...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalized with a lung infection,...
In 2008, Leo Tavares* convinced his mother to vote for Barack Obama. He actually walked with his politically naïve mother into the voting booth and told...
Students at State U. of Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO/Douglas Engle Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across...
Afro Brazilian model Isabel Correia. Only a handful of black models sashayed down the catwalk at this week’s Rio fashion show, sparking fresh calls for quotas...
By Dennis Matanda In his seminally impressive book Not Even Past, Thomas J. Sugrue makes a valid point about race and racists. He concurs that there...
California Watch - The figures show that white students here also receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarship funding...
A study published today in Science may shed new light on why African American scientists are so rare in biomedical research, and raises troubling questions about...
A U.S. appeals court on Monday reinstated a suit against the City of New Haven by an African-American firefighter who claimed the city’s firefighter promotion exams...
18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly is suing her McGehee, Arkansas public high school for barring her from being valedictorian because of her race...
OPINION - The truth is today's Republican party is controlled by a fringe group of players who are after one thing: Making sure the first black...
Racial profiling and police brutality; economic inequality; racial stereotypes; disparate incarceration rates, unbalanced criminal justice and media bias. These are just a few of the racial...
For centuries African Americans, like their white counterparts, have struggled with mental health problems. Things are getting better, but we’ve still got work before us. It...
Canada’s self-image as a tolerant nation perversely allows racism to flourish. If you are a Black Canadian, studies continue to show that you are less likely...
Brazil’s public self-image of a ‘racial democracy’ is being challenged as black Brazilians struggle to overturn centuries of racism Aleixo Joaquim da Silva was working in...
A barrier for Cuba’s blacks Six-foot-two, brown skinned and with semi-curly hair, Denny walked confidently into a government warehouse for a recent job interview. Sitting across...
OPINION - As a civil rights lawyer who works in the trenches, I am well aware of the barriers that black voters face and particularly sensitive...
OPINION - By publicizing and advertising what had happened to them, these African-American celebrities have provided a public service...
Congressional backers of a pardon for Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago for his romantic relationships with...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Many Americans changed their perceptions of discrimination and racism after Barack Obama became the nation's first black president...
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) - Winfrey is to receive an honorary doctorate from a South African University know for tense racial relations as a sign of...
