Africans
How China Shut Down African Protests Over Racial Discrimination in Guangzhou
“As an African, I actually feel let down by our leaders,” Samantha Sibanda, founder of the Beijing-based Appreciate Africa Network, told VICE News.
‘Black Panther’ Is Going to Be an Important Movie
The film that features an almost all-black cast, a black director, and is set in a world that portrays people of color in a superior light is something black people have never seen before.
'Dear White People' Totally Failed With Its Lone African Character
Rashid was not multi-dimensional in any manner. He was the representation of the simple African that Western media has spent years cultivating
Michele Amaglio Photographed the African Refugees Living in the Alps
Michele Amaglio heard their story, but had to meet them for himself.
The Hot Zone: Black Death Returns to Madagascar
We went to Madagascar in the fall of 2013 because the village of Beranimbo had been an epicenter of a black plague outbreak that resulted in nearly 600 cases and more than 90 deaths across the country. Madagascar reports the most instances of the...
African Refugees Are Having a Hard Time Living in a Dutch Prison
I recently went to Amsterdam to visit a community of African refugees who live in a former prison. Now their situation is becoming even more desperate because the time period in which they're allowed to stay here is coming to an end, and many of them...
This Week in Racism - The History of African Human Zoos in Europe
Artists in Norway built a recreation of the "Congo Village," a human zoo that attracted white patrons who were eager to gawk at tribal Africans held in captivity. Human zoos were a sad, but common attraction in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.