• Boukary Sawadogo

How African immigrants in New York City’s Manhattan borough coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.

• William Shoki

Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated.

• Jeanne-Marie Jackson

How do white South African writers confront the country's as well as their own pasts?

• Greg Burris

Activists in the occupied territories reinvent the Freedom Rides of 1960s America and in the process link US and Palestinian struggles for liberation.

• Tunde Wey

Reflections from New Orleans, Louisiana — the US's most African city — on the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Rasna Warah

The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.

• Abraham T. Zere

A new thriller by Andrew Welsh-Huggins follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a Somali-American teenager in Ohio.

• Christopher J. Lee

Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Lines of Descent (2014) argues that W. E. B. Du Bois’s two years as a graduate student in Berlin vitally informed his views on race and politics.

• Grégory Pierrot

The TV series "Watchmen" deserves credit for how it put unsung elements of black history into mainstream culture.

• Anthony Comber-Badu

Black popular culture has gained two new heroes in Queen & Slim — a film about desperate violence.

• Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.

• Prexy Nesbitt

Historian Peter Cole’s book on dockworkers in apartheid South Africa and San Francisco gets beyond slogans to vital historical truths.

• Modupeola Oyebolu

The Nigerian-American writer, Tope Folarin, wrestles with blackness and black immigrant identity in his new novel.

• Boluwatife Akinro
• Joshua Segun-Lean

Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa.

• R. Joseph Parrott

The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.

• Remi Brulin

A radical critique of the discourse on terrorism and, specifically, of repeated Israeli and US claims to moral superiority in the fight against “terrorism,” is long overdue.

• Hisham Aïdi

Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.

• Rishi Nath

Ed Pavlic's new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.

• Abraham T. Zere

An US congressional delegation to Eritrea — the first in 14 years — which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?