Maya Angelou’s political journalism, written in the 1960s, was radical and anti-colonial. Pictorial Press/Alamy Stock Photo
by Alex White, University of Cambridge
On August 28 1963, a...
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by Nemata Blyden, University of Virginia
There’s a long history of African Americans settling in Ghana or keeping in close contact with the...
(NNPA)—“The kind of beauty I want is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within: strength, courage, dignity.”—Ruby Dee
In the past several weeks, two remarkable...
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The day before she died, Maya Angelou telephoned Ebony magazine headquarters in Chicago to tell new editor-in-chief Mitzi Miller that she...
