Havana and Washington: On African Time?
Was it ever in doubt that the first African American president of the United States would wish to crown his legacy by normalizing relations with the most African island in the Americas?
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Black death and revolution
In the days leading up to the grand jury decisions in the separate murders of Mike
#ICANTBREATHE
One morning last semester at John Jay College in New York City, I asked my students
The Right to Grow Old: Photos of the Central American Migrant Crisis
Central American migration, and especially the migration of undocumented children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Dear Ann Coulter …
Ann Coulter, an American columnist who makes Richard Littlejohn and Donald Rumsfeld look like easy-going lefties,
A Bronx Story: Ghana vs USA
The fate of World Cup draws has fostered an unlikely rivalry between Ghana and the United States.
Paul Kagame’s Rabbi
Shmuley Boteach promotes the Rwandan dictator in the US Jewish community and to other Americans as a friend of Israel, Boteach's other foreign cause.
Leather from Human Skin
In the 1880s, in Philadelphia, "birthplace of America," some white locals used the skin of black people to make clothes, including shoes.
Can African Heads of State speak
Why when African leaders meet Barack Obama, they are received in groups (unlike all other heads of state) and rarely get to speak?
Marcus Garvey’s Africa
The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey's influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Next James Bond
The Bond franchise has a white casting problem, but at least it has made peace with Britain and its institutions' marginal position within world affairs.
Acoustic Guitar Break
We thought it would be nice to compile a Bonus Music Break centered on acoustic guitar
Film Review: “The Education of Auma Obama”
Republican party propaganda wants to paint President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family as alien to America. In
If Africa really is a country …
One of our readers took our title literally.
The CIA’s Charles Taylor Revelation
Recent revelations, which have always been suspected, have strengthened the United States’ role in the Liberian
South America's World Cup
All five of the South American representatives in the 2010 World Cup have made it to