A story is the only time you can have my attention
Blitz the Ambassador talks to us about his new EP, 'The Warm Up,' ahead of his Brooklyn, NY, show tonight.
New York
The New Black Films
There is something to be said about the sheer volume of highly-anticipated films made by black filmmakers or about communities of color.
Photographing the African Diaspora in New York City
A group of graduate students in New York photograph the city's immigrant and refugee communities, especially the African ones.
At the Protests for Trayvon Martin
The focus should be on white people. Why have so many of us chosen not to demonstrate?
African Football at The Shrine
Watching the African Nations Cup Final at The Shrine in Harlem.
The Reincarnation of Rockland Palace
A part of Harlem's ballroom scene gets a makeover and a much needed funding injection and international exposure.
Uptown Sahel
Thinking about ways that Africa is represented by NGO's and other international organizations.
Disco Angola (in New York City)
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.
Coming to America
Filmmakers like Nikyatu Jusu, of Sierra Leonean descent, provide reference points for young African immigrants growing up in the West.
Mother Russia
New York City artist Maria Buyondo grew up in Russia and Sweden, the child of a Russian mother and an Ugandan father.