Baltimore Blues
Rather than spending money to fix massive inequalities, the U.S. funds militarizing the police, incarcerating black youth, and state violence.
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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?
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.
If Africa really is a country . . .
One of our readers took our title literally.
World Cup Diary 2010: South America’s World Cup?
On the field, Africa’s World Cup has disappointed: Nigeria faltered, South Africa and Algeria couldn’t finish, Côte d’Ivoire were unlucky, and Cameroon underwhelmed.