22-year-old Amanda Gorman is now the youngest poet to recite her original poem at a presidential inauguration and the sixth poet to perform at an inauguration following in the footsteps of other great poets like Maya Angelou and Robert Frost.
How the 36 states of Nigeria got their names
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and where one can find more Black people than in any other country on the planet, has a uniquely complicated colonial history.
Do you know what North Africans looked like before Islam and Arabs invaded?
There has been a fierce debate over the Africanness of Maghrebian North Africans as well as Libyans and Egyptians, for close to a century. One of the key drivers of this debate is their appearance.
A look at the ‘love’ affairs between enslaved black men and rich white women
The implications of considering one human being as another’s property in bona fide, are a myriad of moral, psychological, political, and economic topics that many would rather avoid talking about.
Luton Shelton, one of Jamaica's most prolific goalscorers, dies at 35 following battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Former Sheffield United and Jamaica's record goalscorer, Luton Shelton has died at the age of 35. Shelton passed away on Friday, January 22, at the Andrews Memorial Hospital in St Andrew. He was pronounced dead after he developed complications and was unresponsive when he was rushed to the hospital.
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