• Anakwa Dwamena

Most poor African immigrants to the US can't pull the “get out of black”-card when confronted with racism, something middle class Africans can pull.

• Dylan Valley

It is eerie (and tragic) how relevant the themes of racial tension and structural violence of Spike Lee's 'Do the right thing' still is--both in America and South Africa.

• Will Monteith

One effect of the deployment of tear gas and military equipment in Kampala is in the fear it invokes in the electorate, reminding them of the close relationship between the president, police and military.

• Gina Athena Ulysse

Bland, who died in police custody after a traffic stop in Texas, embodied a rare charismatic self-possession that disrupts social orders.

• Grant Farred

How does one ask the black church to offer hospitality after a white, racist stranger made the historic inner sanctum of the black community the space of death?

• Yael Even Or

The film 'Red Leaves’ is a timely depiction of the Ethiopian-Israeli struggle.

• Marissa Moorman

How whites in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, and Mozambique acted in unison to thwart independence.

• Boima Tucker

• Kara Moskowitz
• Fernando Esquivel-Suárez

• Marissa Jackson

The last few years have revealed that, particularly at the state level, justice for Black Americans is an impossibility.

• Mawuena Akyea

• T.O. Molefe

Many middle-class black South Africans hold poor and working-class blacks in disregard if not disdain, and believe poor blacks hold themselves back.

• Cheta Nwanze

Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria's police force was never really an investigating force.

• Youssef Benlamlih

Morocco appears stable, but high unemployment, economic reforms, increased repression and police brutality, could still impact the country's politics. 

• Ts'eliso Monaheng

Lesotho's media and the "problem" of Chinese immigrant shop owners.

• Sean Jacobs