HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — The project places Black classical composers and much of their previously overlooked music into today’s cultural consciousness.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I think the time for NCNW to build good, positive, relationships with the press is now. Not when there’s some issue, some crisis,...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Seyni Nafo, spokesman of the African delegation at the World Climate Conference is not one to mince words about the serious climate threat...
THE CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Africa is home to some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, fueling a $31 billion fashion industry and its own Africa...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The main problem is that many western companies don’t have much knowledge about Africa,” Chris Folayan said. “When I talk to companies I...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I quickly figured it out. This whole agreement was about how they could get more products from China tariff free. It soon became...
“The American King: As Told by an African Priestess” is a new film, written and directed by Jeta Amata, that delivers a different perspective on the...
THE BURTON WIRE — The world lost major influencers, legends, trailblazers and icons during 2018
(Reuters) – The director of Taylor Swift’s new music video set in Africa struck back on Wednesday at mounting criticism of the scarcity of black...
(BBC) – As President Obama finished his speech to the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa last month and stepped off the stage, a tempest whipped up outside....
(The Guardian) – Everyone thought Francis Oduor was dead. In fact the Kenyan international footballer had fled into the bush, walked four miles and gone into hiding after...
(Ebony) – Tonjé Bakang, 33, was beautifully poisoned by Black American culture at an early age. As a teenager growing up in France during the late 1990s,...
(Bloomberg) – Emerging markets in Asia and Africa still reign supreme: They’re at the top of global growth projections over the next two years. The world...
Patrick McGroarty, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOHANNESBURG (The Wall Street Journal)—Companies and government officials are illegally moving as much as $60 billion out of Africa...
Aaron Ross, REUTERS KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Security forces fired live rounds and tear gas at rock-throwing protesters in Democratic Republic of...
(InformationNigeria.com)—Fashion designer turned oil tycoon, Chief (Mrs) Folorunsho Alakija, is now officially the richest black woman in the world with an estimated net worth of...
(Bloomberg) – Somalia is seeking to renegotiate an agreement that gives a company run by former British soldiers sole control over one of the world’s richest...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist A couple of weeks ago, law enforcement officials in Mauritania arrested nine people for doing something the government considers radical: protesting...
LONDON (AP) — The United Nations Population Fund said Tuesday that changing demographics, mainly in Africa and Asia, could lead to rapid economic growth if...
Special to the NNPA via THE WASHINGTON INFORMER WASHINGTON (The Washington Informer)—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced Thursday that Africa.com CEO Teresa Clarke is among...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist A high school friend of my wife was one of the earliest victims of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He was a...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist This ought to be a season of hope for Liberia and Sierra Leone, two of the West African countries that...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When it comes to matters of trade and economics, experts are eager to speak of “globalization.” People are keen to talk...
Paul Wiseman and Boubacar Diallo, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as their economies had begun to recover from the man-made horror of coups and...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Is it me or does it seem like the powers that be are trying to have a Ebola virus scare in...
