BLACK PANTHER This weekend brought the debut of  Ryan Coogler 's newest directorial triumph,  Black Panther,   a Marvel Studios pr...

Brazos (de) Santiago, Texas, where the final battle of the US Civil War occurred One of the stories in Counternarratives , "River...

February 1 always marks the start of US Black History Month, as well as the birthday of one of the greatest poets this country gave the ...

A number of new books now grace my desk, so here is a little information on several that I have had a hand in. I'll begin with Rodney G...

Reading Fly Brother 's blog entry today reminded me that back in the early 1990s, two different friends introduced me to the music ...

Thus Elenuobere was acquitted and absolved from his labours. The mouth that had put him into trouble had talked him out of it again. Neve...

Checking tweets before bed, I saw Tara Betts ' note about and link to the New York Times obituary for Abdias do Nascimento (1914-2011,...

Gates talks with Brazilian rapper, MV Bill Henry Louis Gates Jr. 's 4-part PBS series Black in Latin America , which ran for each...

David Kato (Photo: Frontline, CAHR) Gukira has one of the best (as always), most thoughtful and considerate memorial posts I've read...

Holly Pickett/NY Times So the Tunisian people have driven out their corrupt, authoritarian president, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali , in office...

One of the most depressing things I've read in recent days is this Lydia Polgreen article in the New York Times on the dreadful state o...