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Kendrick Lamar plans to bring major concerts to Africa through new Global...
NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline Move Afrika: A Global Citizen Experience, a new initiative to establish an international touring circuit on the continent of Africa launching with a...
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrations sweep across global cities
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday, marching from Washington to Milan to Paris, demanding an end to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. The protests...
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Afro Venezuelan migrants––between a blockade and the hope of return
In February 1996, the magazine Africamerica, published by my Venezuela-based Fundación Afroamerica Y Diaspora Africana, ran a front-page story that declared “Migrations: problems of the third...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the ‘non-complexity’ of the Middle East wars
As political theorists, activists, politicians and others struggle with ways to understand the current war in the Middle East, a clarity came to prize-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates...
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Freeze on weapons sale to Nigeria over ‘enforces disappearances’
(GIN) – An arms race has been breaking records around the world—defying efforts to keep firearms, handguns, and larger weapons from falling into the wrong hands. Of the many countries currently in...
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Somali American woman scoops race for mayor in Minnesota
(GIN) – Voters in the Minnesota city of St. Louis Park turned out in force for Nadia Mohamed, a 27-year-old Somali American, choosing her as the city’s first Black, first Somali, and first Muslim...
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A Ghana reparations summit agrees on a global fund to compensate Africans for...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago...
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South African scholar pens open letter for ceasefire in Gaza
(GIN) – Thousands of scholars in South Africa’s higher education sector have taken a public stand for a ceasefire in Gaza, imploring other institutions in South Africa to do the same. An open letter...
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Kenya raises alarm as flooding death toll rises to 76, with thousands...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government on Monday urged people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa....
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In Tanzania, grief over the death of African student killed in Israel
(GIN) – Clemence Felix Mtenga should have graduated from university this week. Instead his body was being flown home from Israel to his grieving family in Tanzania. The 22-year-old agriculture student...
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Afro Puerto Ricans march for Cecilia Orta
A contingent of Afro Puerto Rican anti-racist activists showed up on Sunday, Nov. 19 to condemn what they are calling a discriminatory act by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR/Puerto Rico Museum...
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Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth…remain wretched
December 6 marks the 62nd anniversary of the death of the Afro Martinican leader, Frantz Fanon. Born July 20, 1925, in Fort-de-France, Martinique, he was a pioneer of decolonization, but unfortunately...
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Rescuer raises hope of survivors at Zambian mine where more than 30 buried...
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP)—A member of a rescue team raised hope Monday that there may be survivors at a Zambian mine where more than 30 informal miners have been trapped under debris for days and presumed...
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UN says Africa faces unprecedented food crisis, with 3 in 4 people unable to...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least three-fourths of Africans can’t afford a healthy diet, and a fifth are undernourished due to an “unprecedented food crisis,” United Nations agencies said in a report...
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Afrodescendants and human rights in Latin America
Almost immediately after the end of World War II, the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at its General Assembly on December 10, 1948. Seventy-five years have passed since...
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Israel signs up African youth for farm jobs amidst ongoing war
Dec. 11, 2023 (GIN) – Thousands of young Malawians are packing their bags for a chance to make serious money in Israel working on farms and orchards. Some 15,000 Palestinian workers recently lost...
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U.S. cast sole vote against Gaza ceasefire
(GIN) – A resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza was vetoed by the U.S. in a special U.N. Security Council meeting called Saturday by the Secretary General. It...
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African National Congress faces party members demanding change
(GIN) – The historic African National Congress (ANC), leader of the decades-long struggle against apartheid and the governing party of the Republic of South Africa since 1994, is having a family feud....
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El Chorrillo: The massacre of an Afro Panamanian neighborhood
The United States military invaded Panama on December 20, 1989, during the U.S. presidency of George H. W. Bush. Code-named “Operation Just Cause,” the U.S.’s stated purpose for sending 26,000 troops...
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In 2023, Afro Colombians were at the crossroads of massacres and resilience
Throughout 2023, people of African descent in Latin America had their lives marked by hope, violence, and resilience. In Colombia, a country that has the largest population of people of African...
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