african-americans

African Americans

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.

Family ties

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting news piece on the growing migration by Portuguese workers to Angola.