Mutual Entanglements
The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.
African Americans
Sandra Bland and The Beatles
Bland, who died in police custody after a traffic stop in Texas, embodied a rare charismatic self-possession that disrupts social orders.
#ICANTBREATHE
One morning last semester at John Jay College in New York City, I asked my students
The Other Afripolitans
Malitia Malimob, rap music and the less glamorous stories of African migration to the United States.
McDonald’s Baobab Tree
The use of black and African pride by Western fast food chains to appeal to African-Americans in the United States.
Liberator Magazine
Here. Photo Credit: Cedric Miles.
Street Photographer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxFJgqicZw&w=560&h=349] Charlie Ahearn’s new documentary of Brooklyn photographer Jamal Shabazz screening on June 26 at the
Return to the Motherland
From the late 1950s, emigration to independent Africa became a feasible option for African Americans tired of U.S. racial segregation. After Apartheid, South Africa became too.
Manning Marable
On Monday a new book on Malcolm X by the American intellectual and historian Manning Marable
Dakar Modern
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbSVS0AmtA] I’ve been wanting to post for a while now about the Digital Diaspora Family Reunion. Primarily
Branding The New Black
Andre Pinard works for a advertising and brand agency that markets products historically associated with white, upper class consumers to the black urban market.
'First Time in Sudan Africa'
Another one of those videos I was forwarded over the break. It’s become something of a
The World of Tyler Perry
Whatever The New Yorker’s rationale for commissioning a piece on Tyler Perry, the “critic-proof” producer and
Family ties
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting news piece on the growing migration by Portuguese workers to Angola.