Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye appointed a seasoned economist and former central banking executive as the nation’s new prime minister on Monday. The decision follows the dramatic dismissal ...

A new PBS documentary explains why the scholar and leader of civil rights organizations renounced his U.S. citizenship for a ...

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This ‘American Masters’ production is never less than laudatory about the intellectual and activist, but doesn’t avoid the ...

I recently spoke with a retired partner of a Washington, D.C. law firm who has become a friend and mentor. He once led the ...

When I first read W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1903 book, “The Souls of Black Folks,” some 90 years after it was published, I was struck not only by its enduring relevance but also by the searching poetry with ...

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

By Megan Sayles AFRO Staff Writer msayles@afro.com More than six decades after his 1965 assassination, El-Hajj Malik ...

The June 2 primary sees Mayor Karen Bass challenged by 13 people, including a reality TV villain and a councilmember who was ...

Vincent Bolloré built his fortune through ports, railways and logistics networks across Africa. Decades later – despite corruption allegations and an upcoming criminal trial in Paris – the French ...

Since the US and Israel began their war on Iran on February 28, Iranian military forces have succeeded in shooting down or ...

President John Mahama wants to criminalize employers demanding sex in exchange for work. But can a new law — that falls into a legal grey zone — be enforced? President John Mahama's call to ...