In a continent juggling thirty plus wars and mineral wealth that leaks like a punctured drum, American private military ...

S pike Lee is fully immersed in his ambassadorship role in Benin, where he's urging African Americans to reconnect with their ancestral roots on the continent.

Kenneth Harris, a 38-year-old retired veteran, lifts weights at a gym in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On January 20, Christa Núñez, a 51-year-old Cornell Ph.D. student and mother ...

My first time on the continent of Africa was during the Ajabu Cocktail Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2024. The experience proved transformative. As an Afro-Caribbean girl raised in the ...

It’s time we had an uncomfortable conversation. One we needed to have years ago but merely swept under the rug. Now, President Trump’s aggressive immigration policies are forcing our hand. There is a ...

Analysis - In addition to a US Government shutdown at midnight on September 30, 2025, due to failure to pass a spending bill, ...

President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976. The theme for Black History Month 2025 is African Americans and Labor. President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black ...

Five North Americans were among those arrested when South African police raided an illicit methamphetamine lab on a farm.

I’m no fan of performative identity politics, and I think racial preferences are long past their expiration date. Yet I don’t think the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani did anything ...