Educator Mary McLeod Bethune regularly wrote of her travels abroad. Robert Abbott Sengstacke via Getty Images
by Robertson Preston, Howard University
When I first landed an...
Margaret Busby in 1971 at her desk at Allison and Busby publishers. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, University of the Witwatersrand
Published in...
by Danielle N. Boaz, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
For decades, it has been common for people to throw around terms like “voodoo politics,”...
by Kathleen Openshaw, Western Sydney University
A special UN working group this week tabled its first-ever report on the experiences of people of African descent...
by Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the North American publishing scene...
The history of folk dances in Martinique stretches back centuries. Sylvain Grandadam/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
by Camee Maddox-Wingfield, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
On May 22...
