Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
COREIN CARTER Would you be persuaded to attend a festival if I told you that you could leave a changed person? AfroFuture accomplished that and then some. The festival formerly known as Afrochella, was founded in 2017 by Abdul Karim Abdullah and Kenny Agyapong and has now evolved into much more than just a music […]
Excerpts from the book: Jack Cudjo. Newark’s Revolutionary Soldier & First Black Businessman “This is a riveting historical account of an early enslaved African in New Jersey on par with the narrative of Olaudah Equiano. Cudjo, or Banquante, is an extraordinary person who enters our history in this book with a much fuller portrait and […]
In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions from uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved? JULIE ZAUZMER WEIL The land came first, 5,557 acres of forest purchased two years after the Revolutionary War by a Virginia slaveholder and future congressman. The mansion came […]
SETH FREED WESSLER The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites. Nobody working to bring a $346 million Microsoft project to rural Virginia expected to find graves in the woods. But in a cluster of […]
HANNAH BROCKHAUS In his first speech in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, January 31 Pope Francis urged the international community to give the central African country its autonomy while not turning a blind eye to exploitation and violence. “This country and this continent deserve to be respected and listened to; they deserve to […]
TERRY GROSS Smartphones, computers and electric vehicles may be emblems of the modern world, but, says Siddharth Kara, their rechargeable batteries are frequently powered by cobalt mined by workers laboring in slave-like conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kara, a fellow at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the Kennedy School, […]
Beyond Good has done what no chocolate brand has done before it EMILY MONACO Over 70% of the world’s chocolate comes from Africa — and yet there’s only one U.S. brand making its chocolate on the continent. Ironic? Yes. But it also sheds light on what’s so broken about the chocolate industry, not to mention […]