
Boogie Down Nima in the Bronx
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
There is a huge disconnect between Americans working in Africa, and Africans working in America – though they are often in the same building.
We’ve written plenty on this blog about the worsening levels of violent racism against Africans in
After the death of at least 130 Somalian and Eritrean migrants off the coast of the
There are some 36,000 Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel who wants to force them to go home. To a dictatorship.
The UK government is now openly tweeting its contempt for people of color.
The story of the Mount Zion community, largely made up of West African men collecting scrap metal all over Barcelona.
Congolese (Brazzaville) filmmaker Rufin Mbou Mikima has uploaded* his latest documentary “Tsofa” to YouTube. The film
Why is a photo of an empathetic group of young Dutch Moroccans visiting a concentration camp being used to illustrate so many stories in which Moroccans are a "problem"?
Malitia Malimob, rap music and the less glamorous stories of African migration to the United States.
How does it feel to be an African asylum seeker in Europe.
Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
Media about African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel highlight their experiences and desires for rights, but erase their agency, portraying them solely as victims of violence and exploitation.
What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?
Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes, film editors at Brooklyn Rail, write about the documentary film “Imagining
It has come to this. Don’t focus too much on the ‘your scholarship’ line. An email
Photographer Glenna Gordon, no stranger to AIAC, is working on a new project in Staten Island,
http://vimeo.com/20927993 Video for spoken word from Senegalese rapper Keyti–remember him? Keyti was one of the stars
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.
[vodpod id=Video.5972910&w=500&h=411&fv=videoId%3D897337827001%26amp%3BlinkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fvideo%253FvideoID%253D897337827001%26amp%3BplayerID%3D673564960001%26amp%3BplayerKey%3DAQ%7E%7E%2CAAAAAF1454s%7E%2CQH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BdynamicStreaming%3Dtrue] Writer Teju Cole— he has a new novel, “Open City”–talks and writes about identity