Yesterday was a good day because with the world seeming to be falling apart at the seams with the hardest hit being nations & cities with majority Black populations, we can all use some positivity…

I am so happy that The Root took us back to our roots by showing us that “Yes We Can & Have”!  Sometimes it is not just the rest of the world that has…

I was first introduced to Seu Jorge like many others from his critically acclaimed movie with its vast global following entitled “City of God“,one of my favorite movies of all time. This more »

Reminiscing & missing the Black Star nation, I indulged in conversation with my elders AKA seniors as they told stories of the days when they lived in the same complex as Meriam Makeba- African immigrants…

Some people can’t fathom the idea of why a prestigious artistic institution like NYU would name Swizz Beatz as NYU’s first producer-in-residence of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School…

Africa United is a great showing of African film that is a far cry from the usual Nollywood style overly dramatic tribal & love telenovelas AKA soap operas. We can debate on what…

I must thank Shadow And Act & The New York Daily News for bringing the Spike Lee & Absolut protest by Brookly teens to my attention. From the first day I heard about Spike…

As the power of South America becomes more visible on the global stage with the formation of the Union of South American Nations (USAU), powerhouses like oil giant Venezuela unapologetically flexing its power in…

It seems we, Africans can never be satisfied when our former colonizers are the vessels who bring our stories to the world. There was backlash against the BBC documentary “Welcome to Lagos“, a look…

This is amazingly brilliant- we have to get back to valuing the teachings & history that comes live & direct from our elders, which no history books have nor can authentically record! Teaching…