As citizens of the World, we tend to romanticize movies like Titanic and those of the Mayflower and we forget that not everyone on the Mayflower was royalty. 16th and 17th century Britain was a society of classes and to this day the color…
Sam Childers & The Angles of East Africa
Sam Childers and the Angels of East are working to protect the children of Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda. He was the subject of the 2011 movie "Machine Gun Preacher". He runs an orphanage in…
African Immigrants in the US
While watching Africa Straight Up I was excited to see people who were trying to challenge the conversation about Africa as depicted in Western Media. However, something also concerned me. Some of the Africans they chose to champion…
President Barack Obama
Thank you so much.
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the…
I remember growing up and seeing images on tv about this place called the "Big Apple" with all its glitz and glamour and praying "Oh Lord please take me to America so I can see for myself what I see on tv…
Malya Villard-Appolon
Since Haiti will be joining the African Union in 2013, we want to welcome them by highlighting content that tells about the good news on the Island of Hispaniola. We would like to highlight 2012 CNN Hero, Malya Villard-Appolon for the work…
The Story of the African Continent has always been distorted to suit the needs of different people. For Europeans it was to justify their desire to colonize people who they described as savages and sub-human people and therefore needing to be civilized.…
Thulani Madondo
Congratulations to Thulani Madondo who has been nominated as a CNN Hero for 2012.
Madondo was nominated as a 2012 CNN Hero for his work with the Kliptown Youth Program (KYP), which provides meals for children, support with school fees, after-school care…
Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth David Kaunda, born April 28, 1924 in Lubwa, near Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) is a politician who led Zambia to independence in 1964 and served as that country’s president until 1991. There is speculation that the region he was born in was actually…
Tobacco Farmer in Zimbabwe
A group of white Zimbabwean farmers is suing to stop the removal of sanctions against the Mugabe regime. They argue that the men who are on the sanctions list are responsible for their loss of property which in the…