Ferguson, Missouri, right in the American heartland is a microcosm of the macrocosm of justice and equal protection under the law. Last year, a young white American male named Edward Snowden stole troves of data and intelligence from the National Security Agency…
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. Writer/director Justin Simien follows a group of African American students as…
Hierarchy in America
It is an indisputable fact that America has in the core of its fabric racism ingrained in it. That is an undeniable fact and that racial equality still eludes this nation that prides itself as the beacon of hope for…
Long Walk to Freedom is a must read for every self-respecting black person. It should be a on the reading list in all schools not just because it is the story of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century.…
Shai Reshef
Shai Reshef wants to democratize higher education. At University of the People, he runs a tuition-free online school that offers tuition-free college-level studies to students across the globe, offering bachelor's and associate's degrees in two specialized areas where the jobs are:…
President Obama welcomes leaders from across the African continent to the Nation’s Capital for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the first such event of its kind. This Summit, the largest event any U.S. President has held with African heads of state and…
This week several young and promising leaders were assembled in Washington DC for President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). Hastings Mkandawire is one of the nine Young African Leaders’ Initiative (YALI) fellows from Malawi now in Washington, DC, participating in the…
In front of 500 exceptional young leaders, President Obama announced the renaming of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in honor of Nelson Mandela. He also announced that the United States intends to double the number of annual participants in the Mandela Washington Fellowship to…
The People of Africa v. Their Western Saviors
In American media and pop culture, Africans remain objects of our pity or moral outrage or fascination. The images are deeply disturbing, even enthralling, but they aren’t really about Africans; they’re about us. FRAMED…
Uganda aims to start producing its first car the Kiira EV SMACK by 2018. Production of the vehicle is expected to start at a goal of 300 a month. The car will be a combination of a conventional internal combustion engine and an…