• Boima Tucker

Harlem rapper Sheck Wes's star rises in the shadow of Dapper Dan and Cheikh Amadou Bamba.

• Alex Park

Pith helmets and jodhpurs aside, Melania Trump went to four African countries to promote her "Be Best" education initiative. What's that about?

• Scott Remer

American liberals’ continued refusal to engage seriously with the global collapse of the postwar liberal order.

• Andreana Prichard

The disfunction with American voluntourism and Christian outreach in Africa, that in some cases have led to abuse.

• Rishi Nath

Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls and Hari Kunzru’s White Tears.

• Daivi Rodima-Taylor
• Zadi Zokou

The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.

• Marta Moreno Vega

New York City's Caribbean Cultural Center seeks to “document and present the creative genius of African Diaspora cultures.” 

• Joeva Rock

Is the US military on its way to Ghana to set up base? What do Ghanaians think.

• Shona Kambarami

How the celebrated film Black Panther stacks up in its depiction of decolonized African feminism.

• Chris Paterson

Most people are unaware that U.S. troops are active in almost every African country.

• Boima Tucker

Black Panther arrives as black America diversifies, but the US becomes more isolationist. It's not beyond many African Americans to reflect nativist tendencies.

• Russell Rickford

Anyone committed to an expansive concept of Pan-African liberation must regard 'Black Panther' as a counterrevolutionary film.

• Jennifer Hart

The most senior African official in the US State Department gives a peak what Trump thinks of Africa.

• Greg Scruggs

The depressing new norm for one of the most vibrant grassroots, immigrant cultural traditions in New York City.

• Anakwa Dwamena

Few immigrants make the connection between their immigration status and the potential for deportation if they came into contact with the criminal justice system.

• Katarina Hedrén

Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' should be seen as part of the Afrofuturism genre, which offers physical and mental liberation through supernatural or non-realistic means.

• Adam Benkato
• Duane Jethro

The decision to relocate Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks's home from Detroit to Berlin, Germany, is another case of white savior complex.

• Lara Pawson

• Josh Guild

The need for vigilance and sustained, principled resistance under the new regime of U.S. President, Donald Trump.

• Vito Laterza
• Louis Philippe Römer

The role of the left should not be to focus its efforts on bargaining with the often misrepresented and caricatured concerns of a small sector of the working classes.