This month of January marks almost 200 hundred years since the battle of Nsamankwo, which occurred between the British and the Ashanti Kingdom. On January 22, 1824, in the Battle of Nsamankow, the Ashanti Kingdom brutally defeated the British forces. This war forms part of a total of four Anglo-Ashanti wars; Nsamankow war (January 21, […]Read More
Nigerians continue to be optimistic that former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first African woman to head the World Trade Organization (WTO), despite US opposition support. WASHINGTON, DC – The campaign to replace Roberto Azevedo, a Brazilian, took on a new dimension on Wednesday, after the United States rejected Nigerian […]Read More
The pandemic, economic anxiety, and reignited fights on racist structures have created a “mental health tsunami” in the Black community. By Doha Madani As a child, Reginald Howard struggled with destructive visions, moments where he imagined destroying the shelves at the corner store or pushing another child down, but when he tried to identify what was […]Read More
Tia Mowry-Hardrict is encouraging parents to begin teaching their children about racism at home from an early age. “It starts at home,” Mowry-Hardrict said on the premiere episode of the Dear Media podcast Being Bümo. “What people have to understand is this behavior is learned, so it’s about communication. It’s about bringing awareness. It’s about […]Read More
The 111th NAACP National Convention begins today, September 13. Millions across the country have made it known that enough is enough – We Are Done Dying. Social activists, industry leaders, and public servants will join thousands of NAACP members and supporters in making an action plan to improve, protect, and change our communities.Join us from Sunday, […]Read More
The 2020 Virtual March on Washington, taking place August 27-28, 2020 on the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, will be a one of a kind event driving the movement from protest to policy to power. RT @NAACP Tonight, the 2020 Virtual March on Washington continues with a rousing call to vote from #FLOTUS @MichelleObama. We’re going #NonstopToNovember! […]Read More
Niki Solis Opinion contributor There has been much talk about the time Sen. Kamala Harris spent as a prosecutor. As a public defender for 24 years, I examined, critiqued, and battled Harris when she was the San Francisco district attorney. And more often than not, Harris and I were on opposite sides. Having had this experience, I […]Read More
By Timothy Bella On the long walks to and from school, Arshay Cooper thought God existed everywhere except the West Side of Chicago. So Cooper wasn’t going to let one of his teammates on the nation’s first all-black high school rowing team walk alone. For three years in the late ’90s, Cooper and Alvin Ross navigated […]Read More
By Sean Illing If I could bring back from the dead any American writer and ask them to describe the country they see today, it would be James Baldwin, the great 20th-century essayist and novelist. I don’t know what the Black experience is like in America, but I can say that no writer made it as […]Read More
Actress Yara Shahidi is making power moves in the realm of entertainment. According to Deadline, the grown-ish star recently co-founded a production company and inked a deal with ABC Studios. Shahidi’s new venture—dubbed 7th Sun—was created in partnership with her mother Keri Shahidi. The core of the company’s mission is to amplify the narratives of underrepresented groups. The mother-daughter duo says […]Read More
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