History and Culture
A black prime minister?
If America, with its shameful history of racism, can produce a politician like Barack Obama, why can't the UK?
Lola Adesioye
guardian.co.uk
Thursday June 19, 2008
Having watched Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battle for the Democratic nomination, I couldn't help but draw parallels with British politics. As someone who spent the first 10 years of her life, in the 1980s, with Margaret Thatcher as prime minister and leader of the Conservative party - in fact, I used to see Margaret and her husband Dennis every morning on my way to school - a female presidential candidate did not seem so groundbreaking to me. In that regard, the UK is light years ahead of America. However, it's a different story when you consider how well a black person would fare in Britain if running for prime minister. Obama has said that his story could only have happened in America - and he is right. The odds of a black prime minister in Britain anytime soon are slim.
Multiracial Americans see U.S. attitudes evolving
By Todd Lewan
ASSOCIATED PRESS
9:30 a.m. June 13, 2008
Rachel Lerman is the embodiment of melting-pot citizenry: Born in 1967 in Boston to a blonde, blue-eyed, Roman Catholic white woman and a black man from Nigeria, she was placed in foster care and shortly thereafter adopted by a white couple and raised Jewish.
Where Whites Draw the Line
By MARCUS MABRY
Published: June 8, 2008
How black is too black?
Millions of African-Americans celebrated Barack Obama’s historic victory, seeing in it a reflection — sudden and shocking — of their own expanded horizons. But whether Mr. Obama captures the White House in November will depend on how he is seen by white Americans. Indeed, some people argue that one of the reasons Mr. Obama was able to defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was that a large number of white voters saw him as “postracial.”
Growing Up Black in a White Family
NPR
Aaron Stigger personifies colorblind adoption. He's an African-American man adopted as a young child into a white family in the Chicago area. He reflects on what it means to be part of a transracial family.
A new report suggests that white parents aren't adequately prepared to raise black children.
De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized
By RON NIXON
NY Times
Published: May 27, 2008
WASHINGTON — Minority children in foster care are being ill-served by a federal law that plays down race and culture in adoptions, a report released on Tuesday said.
Should Race Be a Factor in Adoptions?
Tuesday, May. 27, 2008
By JENINNE LEE-ST. JOHN
TIME
Should adoption agencies discriminate by race, or even by a person's racial sensitivity? According to current U.S. law, no. Since 1996, it has been illegal to consider race when determining whether families are suitable to raise adopted children — the law was intended to increase adoptions of black children, who are disproportionately represented in the foster care system, by making it easier for whites to take them home. But a new study suggests that approach is short-sighted. "Color-blind" adoption, the report contends, allows some white parents — who may not be mentally ready or have the appropriate social tools to parent black children — to raise youngsters, who may, in turn, experience social and psychological problems later in life.
Nearer to overcoming
May 8th 2008 | ATLANTA AND HARLEM
From The Economist print edition
Barack Obama's success shows that the ceiling has risen for African-Americans. But many are still too close to the floor
WHEN Roland Fryer was about 15, a friend asked him what he would be doing when he was 30. He said he would probably be dead. It was a reasonable prediction. At the time, he was hanging out with a gang and selling drugs on the side. Young black men in that line of work seldom live long. But Mr Fryer survived. At 30, he won tenure as an economics professor at Harvard. That was four months ago.
The dramas of blacks and Jews
Chicago Tribune
May 1, 2008
I can recall two crucial steps along my journey of self-discovery regarding race. One came while I, a Jewish woman, was teaching a class at National-Louis University called Minority Voices in American Literature. The other came when my three children, who were attending a racially integrated high school in Evanston, moved into a new stage of socializing. I was forced to ask myself: Was I really at ease with them dating African American students?
The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism
By Jane Ulman, Contributing Editor
BY TA-NEHISI COATES
‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’
MAY 2008 ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Last summer, in Detroit’s St. Paul Church of God in Christ, I watched Bill Cosby summon his inner Malcolm X. It was a hot July evening. Cosby was speaking to an audience of black men dressed in everything from Enyce T-shirts or polos to blazers and ties. Some were there with their sons. Some were there in wheelchairs. The audience was packed tight, rows of folding chairs extended beyond the wooden pews to capture the overflow. But the chairs were not enough, and late arrivals stood against the long shotgun walls, or out in the small lobby, where they hoped to catch a snatch of Cosby’s oratory. Clutching a cordless mic, Cosby paced the front of the church, shifting between prepared remarks and comic ad-libs. A row of old black men, community elders, sat behind him, nodding and grunting throaty affirmations. The rest of the church was in full call-and-response mode, punctuating Cosby’s punch lines with laughter, applause, or cries of “Teach, black man! Teach!”
The Culture of Lincoln
By Jeffrey Lord
Published 4/8/2008 12:08:01 AM
Strom Thurmond was a white man who once believed in the doctrine of segregation and was assailed as a white racist. Jeremiah Wright is a black man who now believes in what is called the "theology" of black liberation and has been attacked as a black racist.
Thurmond gained fame as the Democratic Governor of South Carolina, walking out of the Democratic National Convention in 1948 to run as the Dixiecrat candidate for president against Democrat Harry Truman and Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Losing, he stayed inside the party of his ancestors, the party of slavery and segregation, moving on to the United States Senate. There, as a member of the Democratic Party's Senate majority, he mounted a ferocious resistance against the second coming of civil rights legislation. Legislation passed almost a century earlier in the wake of the Civil War by the Republican Party, then systematically ignored or dismantled by Democrats as they created what historian Eric Foner called a "military force" for the party known as the Ku Klux Klan and, to enforce their racism, a system of segregation.
Obama is the change that America has tried to hide
Only one candidate offers the radical departure for the 21st century the US needs, for its own sake and the rest of the world's
Alice Walker
The Guardian,
Tuesday April 1, 2008
I have come home from a long stay in Mexico to find - because of the presidential campaign, and especially because of the Obama-Clinton race for the Democratic nomination - a new country existing alongside the old. On any given day we, collectively, become the goddess of the three directions and can look back into the past, look at ourselves just where we are, and take a glance, as well, into the future. It is a space with which I am familiar.
Yes it's politically incorrect but race matters
The Democrats must admit it: Obama would lose to McCain
Anatole Kaletsky
April 24, 2008
TimesOnline.com
American Presidential elections have been compared with reality TV series or game shows, in which a gaggle of jumped-up nonentities aspiring to be celebrities are ritually humiliated in public and offered entertaining opportunities to self-destruct, until only one survivor remains. But this time round, a much more elevated analogy is sadly apposite.
Presidential Politics 2008 - Obama
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Black Agenda Report
The world views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama were incompatible from the start, just as the mythical American Manifest Destiny world view is directly at odds with the facts as perceived by Blacks in the United States. Wright finally forced Obama to choose sides in the conflict ofRevWrightObamaWOrried racial/historical visions, and in doing so, performed a service on behalf of clarity. Obama lashed out in a startlingly personal manner, calling Wright a "caricature" of himself and linking the minister to forces that give "comfort to those who prey on hate." Rev. Wright exposed the flimsy tissues of so-called "race neutrality" in a nation founded on racial oppression.
Forty years after the shot rang out, race fears still haunt the US
Life has changed beyond recognition for many Americans since an assassin's bullet killed Martin Luther King in 1968. Yet despite the rise of a black middle class and Barack Obama's challenge for the White House, the racial divide still exists - and for an urban underclass, things have only got worse. Paul Harris reports from Memphis
Paul Harris in Memphis
The Observer
Sunday March 30, 2008
Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, looks frozen in time. The sheets of the beds are rumpled, undrunk coffee stews in cheap cups, a meal seems half-eaten. It is a re-creation of the room as it was at 6.01pm on 4 April, 1968. That was the moment when, on the balcony outside, the room's most famous guest, Martin Luther King, was shot dead.
Pat Buchanan: America's Race Expert
By Ishmael Reed
Black Star News
March 29th, 2008
Nothing is more uplifting than watching MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where wealthy Anglicized Irish Americans like Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Tim "Little Russ" Russert and Pat Buchanan hold forth on the topic of race. During the week beginning March, 17, 2008, the talk was all about whether Barack Obama should distance himself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Presumably in the same manner that they distanced themselves from Don Imus. Buchanan has been awarded more time to discuss race and the bigotry of Rev. Wright than the scores of Black intellectuals and scholars, who could provide some insight, combined.
Barack Obama's rise highlights US racial divide
By Philip Sherwell in Atlanta
23/03/2008
In the home town of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, disc jockeys from two popular radio stations - one with a predominantly white audience, the other's overwhelmingly black - thought they had hit on a great idea to celebrate his birthday by bridging the racial divide.
Baylor project seeks to preserve African-American gospel recordings
March 23, 2008
By GROMER JEFFERS JR
The Dallas Morning News
WACO – Deep in the basement of Baylor University's Moody Library, a slightly worn 45 nestled around a high-tech turntable starts to spin, producing a mysterious voice from the past.
The Audacity of Hate
Stephen Flurry
March 21, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com
Blaming whites for black problems offers little in the way of hope for a better tomorrow.
Actually, that wasn’t Sharpton’s response. In truth, Sharpton was one of the ones who successfully lobbied for Imus to be fired for his racial slur. The quotes above were made by Sharpton earlier this week in defense of Barack Obama’s spiritual advisor for the past 20 years—the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Sharpton maintains that the media’s treatment of Wright’s bigoted diatribes has been “grossly unfair” (Chicago Sun-Times, March 20).
Obama offers nuance, context, and poetry on race in America — but is it enough?
The Carpetbagger Report
Posted March 18th, 2008
Since his rise to national prominence, Barack Obama has been tasked with giving big speeches while facing high expectations. It’s almost unrealistic to expect any political figure to keep delivering one powerful and historic address after another, but Obama — love him or hate him, an extraordinary orator — has managed to follow through and exceed expectations.
Wright was right
US elections 2008: Barack Obama was quick to condemn his former pastor's comments - but most black Americans agree with them
guardian.co.uk,
Monday March 17, 2008
The reverend Jeremiah Wright has left his position in the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. It emerged that, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, he had said:
Mexico's black history is little-known 'Mixed race' tends to refer to indigenous and European roots, but the influence of Africa is also strong there.
By Jane Ulman, Contributing Editor
JewishJournal.com
March 13, 2008
Decked out in a black tuxedo, a brimmed hat set fashionably on his head, Douglas LeVandia Ulmer Jr., better known as DJ, walked down the aisle to the beat of two African drummers.
Will 'Bro Mitzvah' find roots in African American community?
By Jane Ulman, Contributing Editor
JewishJournal.com
March 13, 2008
Decked out in a black tuxedo, a brimmed hat set fashionably on his head, Douglas LeVandia Ulmer Jr., better known as DJ, walked down the aisle to the beat of two African drummers.
THE FOREST FOR THE TREES: BLACK PRISON GULAG AND THE POLICE STATE
March 10, 2008, 8:35 am
"The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself," says a study by the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the prison industry of being "an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and concentration camps."
Black, British and proud
The immigration debate misses a crucial point: those living here cannot help being shaped by the culture. They are British - like me
Lola Adesioye
Guardian Unlimited
February 27, 2008
I am black, the daughter of African immigrants who came to England in the 1970s. I am also British - and proudly so. British culture, values and ways of life are an intrinsic part of my identity.
Humbled by Magnificence: The Fruit of the African American Experience
By Dee Myles
Political Affairs Magazine
February 5, 2008
There is a consistent, if not conscious, effort to make it appear as if the African American people have become a sea of dehumanized barrenness in the desolate ghettoes of inner cities. This effect can be understood, if not excused, given the context of oppression, exploitation, inequality and injustice. All that is left is the glamorized pimp culture of a Snoop Doggy Dog, the sterile cool swagger of a 50 Cent, and the empty buffoonery of the drug enhanced athlete or entertainer who does not know what to do with money or life. If anything can be said of the masses, it is that their lives are in shambles, and they are caught up in desperation which revolves around despair. No expense is spared to make these ideas, or worse, part of the core belief system in the USA. If one harvests this poisonous crop, one’s thought patterns will become pathologized.
Africa: The New Black Self-Image
The East African (Nairobi)
COLUMN
4 February 2008
Posted to the web 4 February 2008
David Kaiza
AT ONE POINT, IT WAS second only to Hollywood in the sheer volumes of films it produced before the Indian industry, Bollywood, pulled ahead.
A Look at the Price Paid to Desegregate Schools
NPR
January 31, 2008
Briggs v. Elliott case, the South Carolina school desegregation suit that became part of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in the early 1950s.
For the final installment of our series, "Great Expectations," we take a closer look at the Briggs v. Elliott case, the South Carolina school desegregation suit that became part of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case in the early 1950s.
Racism in 'post-racial' America
Silence about race in the presidential campaign underscores the problem.
By Uzodinma Iweala
January 23, 2008
LA Times
The race industry and its elite enablers take it as self-evident that high black incarceration rates result from discrimination. At a presidential primary debate this Martin Luther King Day, for instance, Senator Barack Obama charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences . . . for the same crime.” Not to be outdone, Senator Hillary Clinton promptly denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African-Americans proportionately than whites.”
Is the Criminal-Justice System Racist?
No: the high percentage of blacks behind bars reflects crime rates, not bigotry.
Heather Mac Donald
City Journal
Spring 2008
The race industry and its elite enablers take it as self-evident that high black incarceration rates result from discrimination. At a presidential primary debate this Martin Luther King Day, for instance, Senator Barack Obama charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences . . . for the same crime.” Not to be outdone, Senator Hillary Clinton promptly denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African-Americans proportionately than whites.”
From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, the Role of Prisons in American Society
Black Agenda Report
By Loïc Wacquant
February 6, 2008
African Americans, who make up oneeighth the nation's population, account for about half of all USprisoners. But contrary to popular belief, it hasn't been this wayfor long. Blacks have only made a majority of new admissions to thenation's prisons and jails since 1988.
A vanishing South
Gullahs v golfers
The Economist
January 31, 2008
THE coastal sand flats of South Carolina are a tranquil place. A local newspaper carries a front-page story about a mother and daughter who bit each other. But controversy over development is stirring the calm waters. Developers from Florida want to build a supermarket on St Helena, one of the Sea Islands that dot the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. Many locals object. Last year they mounted a letter-writing campaign against another proposed supermarket, and that one backed off. They worry that a big chain would imperil the region's distinctive black culture, called Gullah or Geechee.
The sneaker cult
Ray Fisman, Slate.com
January 31, 2008
A new theory explains why so many poor blacks and Hispanics spend their money on flashy clothes, cars and jewellery.
Why do black women fear the 'fro?
CHERYL THOMPSON
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
January 31, 2008
As a black woman living in Canada, I often feel invisible when it comes to my natural hair. The television series da Kink In My Hair (which just wrapped up its first season on Global television) taps into a lot of the issues black women have with hair, but on the streets of Toronto, it's a whole other story.
New wave of pop culture humor turns tables on racists
The Dallas Morning News
By CHRIS VOGNAR
January 27, 2008
Racial humor has long been the electric fence of the comedy world, a topic you touch at your own risk. America the melting pot has a way of boiling over when one of its components gets dissed in public.
Black-Brown Divide
Newsweek Web Exclusive
By Jamie Reno
January 26, 2008
The 'Bradley Effect': Los Angeles City Councilman Tom Bradley greeted supporters in 1973
Fighting to Preserve Gullah Community
NPR News & Notes
January 23, 2008
South Carolina is more than just presidential campaigns and crowded voting precincts.
The Illinois Negro Code
By Steve Berg
Most people believe the history of race relations in the United States is neatly divided by geography. Those states north of the Mason-Dixon Line were paragons of equality and liberty, where race was not an issue and diversity flourished in all its glory. In the benighted states to their south, however, the entire social structure was based on slavery and racist oppression. Consequently, the War Between the States was fought purely over the issue of slavery, and, as is usual in trial by combat, the arms of the virtuous side were strengthened by the Hand of the Almighty, which led to their victory over those rebellious slaveholding cretins. For some unknown reason, the books written by court historians do not start with the words “once upon a time.”
Africa: Talking About "Tribe"
AfricaFocus (Washington, DC)
ANALYSIS
January 08, 2008
The Kenyan election, wrote Jeffrey Gettleman for the New York Times in his December 31 dispatch from Nairobi, "seems to have tapped into an atavistic vein of tribal tension that always lay beneath the surface in Kenya but until now had not provoked widespread mayhem." Gettleman was not exceptional among those covering the post-election violence in his stress on "tribe." But his terminology was unusually explicit in revealing the assumption that such divisions are rooted in unchanging and presumably primitive identities.
Can I Touch Your Hair and Skin?
By Frankie Dillard
December 31, 2007
“You know, you could have sex with rap stars!” “Excuse me?” replied Menda Francois. “Well,” started the freshman, “I mean, because your butt is so big.”
Shining a light on black London
Special to The Los Angeles Times
By Sandra Jackson-Opoku
December 27, 2007
The city's long-hidden African and Caribbean cultures emerge. Ride a minibus and appreciate the sacrifice, the music, the past.
The love-hate relationship between black women and hair
Black Britain
December 23, 2007
“My great granny always said, ‘If you want to know a black woman, you touch her hair. She said that is where we carry everything - all our hopes, our dreams, our pains.” - Novelette, Da Kink in My Hair
The Racist Roots of the Anti-Immigration Movement
Black Agenda Report
by Lee Cokorinos
Dec. 19-25, 2007
A Fruitcake Soaked in Tropical Sun
The New York Times
By JULIA MOSKIN
December 19, 2007
African-American family films finding big audiences
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By Christopher Kelly
December 19, 2007
Ghana: White Christmas... in Black Africa!
AllAfrica.com
Akua Djannie
18 December 2007
Africa: Intore - the 'Richest' Dance in Continent
The New Times (Kigali)
Kelvin Odoobo
18 December 2007
Films show broader black experience
Baltimore Sun
By Joe Burris
December 12, 2007
As movie trends move beyond narrow notions of race, African-American writers and directors are presenting more diverse stories about the black experience.
Ethnic hairstyles can cause uneasiness in the workplace
Tribune Newspapers: Newsday
By Tania Padgett
December 12, 2007
Despite warnings from her family that an ethnic hairdo might hurt her career, Melissa Theodore of Huntington, N.Y., an accountant at Ernst & Young, wears her hair in long, thin braids with burgundy highlights that cascade past her shoulders.
Bloggers' Roundtable: Complexion Debate Rages On
NPR
December 12, 2007
A BET show recently hosted a roundtable featuring Sen. Barack Obama and journalist Soledad O'Brien talking about the light versus dark-skinned debate. Plus, nine black teens allegedly attack a white woman after dragging her off a bus. Was it a hate crime?
Robeson, Jr. Imagines 'Black Way of Seeing'
NPR
December 11, 2007
He's the son of the great all-American activist for human rights. But Paul Robeson, Jr. says he is the radical one of the family. He points Farai Chideya to some of the radical views on race put down in his latest book, A Black Way of Seeing.
Christmas in the Caribbean By Willie MacIntosh
Denise Noe
December 9, 2007
Nigerian author says Don’t Africa Me
AfricaNews editor
Paschal Eze Media
Thursday 6 December, 2007
Though Nigeria is tainted by advance fee fraud and China by lead-laden toys, a Nigerian in America is still called an African (by his continental identity) while a Chinese is called a Chinese (by his national identity). Many 'African' immigrants still threaten to send their disobedient kids 'back to Africa' portraying Africa as a torture chambe.
Exploring black history in France
The Voice
By Trudy Simpson
Nov 28 2007
Reduced to the Small Screen
Washington Post Staff Writers
By DeNeen L. Brown and Darryl Fears
November 11, 2007
Black & blue
New Statesman
David Matthews
November 15, 2007
Black Focused Schools
Toronto Star
Nov 7
Black vs Brown: The Color Line
By Kevin Alberto Savio
Nov 5, 2007
Chronicling Black Complexion Wars
NPR
October 31, 2007
"Good" versus "nappy" hair ... "red boned" versus dark skin. For decades, black women have had their looks broken down into categories — and had their feelings hurt, in the process.
The new book, Other People's Skin, explores how black women look at themselves and other black women around them.
Nikki Giovanni on Truth and Tragedy
NPR
10/30/2007
There are no black people in Argentina
Rachelstavern.com
October 29
White Fantasies About Raced-Based Intelligence
Counterpunch
By Natalie Washington-Weik
October 24, 2007
African-American Archive Thrives over the Decades
Produced by Natalie Moore on
Monday, October 22, 2007
Unsung Civil Rights Hero: Myrlie Evers Williams
NPR
October 18, 2007
During the Civil Rights Movement, Myrlie Evers Williams struggled, lost, and triumphed. Her husband, Medgar Evers, was shot dead by a white supremacist sniper in 1963.
What Do Nooses Signify?
NPR
October 18, 2007
Incidents involving nooses are up, but what do they mean? Farai Chideya talks to two men with very different takes on the question. Michael Meyers is executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. Novelist Trey Ellis is an assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Film.
Preserving Slave Legacy on Washington Estate
NPR
October 17, 2007
George Washington's sprawling Mount Vernon estate was a home fit for a king, and the 8,000-acre Virginia property was tended by hundreds of slaves.
The symbols of racism
LancasterONLINE.com
By Suzanne Cassidy
Oct 14, 2007
LANCASTER, Pa. - When they banished Confederate flags from school property earlier this month, Warwick school officials were making their own charge in what could be called the Civility War.
Sixty Percent of the American Children in Foster Care are Black
Bob Lonsberry, BobLonsberry.com
October 10, 2007
Let me repeat that.
In the United States, of all the children in foster care, 60 percent are black.
Renata Sago '10: Commercialized (mis)representations define black culture
The Brown Daily Herald
October 3, 2007
Black culture is indefinite. We all have conceptions of it: basketball and football players, crunkified rappers "walkin' it out," shapely women donning scraps of fabric "pop, lock, and droppin' it," big afros, the ghetto, affirmative action and slavery.
Black Russians
The St. Petersburg Times
By Ali Nassor
Scholars from the U.S., Russia, Europe and Africa celebrated 200 years of U.S.-Russian diplomatic ties in St. Petersburg last month by exploring the once-hidden African-American contribution to Russian and Soviet history.
Being a Black Woman in Europe
By Adrianne George
Guest writer at FM4 and award-winning blogger: blackwomenineurope.blogspot.com
People ask me why I left the US to live in Europe. I had Josephine Baker dreams.
Jamaica: the limit of liberalism
Brighton council's assault on homophobic dancehall music rests on some poisonous prejudices
Guardian Unlimited
Brazil markets its African culture
By Gary Duffy
BBC News, Salvador
Poll Shows Divide Within
NPR
Black America
A new study from the Pew Research Center says four out of every 10 blacks believe African Americans should not be thought of as a single race. NPR senior correspondent Juan Williams explains the figures.
'Black' Cherokees fight for heritage
USA Today
By Lois Hatton
A group of Americans who are not fully black or fully Indian are fighting for the survival of their identity, culture, history and economic future. Life for these black Indians can be difficult, no matter their tribal affiliation.
Sixty Percent of the American Children in Foster Care are Black
Bob Lonsberry, BobLonsberry.com
Let me repeat that.
In the United States, of all the children in foster care, 60 percent are black.
African-Americans are 60 percent of the foster children and 12 percent of the general population. That’s a 500-percent over representation.
In ballpark terms, that means a black child is five times more likely to end up in foster care than the average American child. When you take black children out of the national average, blacks are in the neighborhood of 11 times more likely to be foster children than non-blacks.
Westernisation of Igbo culture
Sylvanus Eze
Nigerian Tribune
'Black' Cherokees fight for heritage
USA Today
By Lois Hatton
A group of Americans who are not fully black or fully Indian are fighting for the survival of their identity, culture, history and economic future. Life for these black Indians can be difficult, no matter their tribal affiliation.
Black Russians
The St. Petersburg Times
By Ali Nassor
Scholars from the U.S., Russia, Europe and Africa celebrated 200 years of U.S.-Russian diplomatic ties in St. Petersburg last month by exploring the once-hidden African-American contribution to Russian and Soviet history.
Being a Black Woman in Europe
By Adrianne George
Guest writer at FM4 and award-winning blogger: blackwomenineurope.blogspot.com
People ask me why I left the US to live in Europe. I had Josephine Baker dreams.
Is rap turning our girls into ho's?
The Voice
BY Janelle Oswald
Happy Birthday Edwin “E.B.” Henderson, Grandfather of Black Basketball
Brazil markets its African culture
By Gary Duffy
BBC News, Salvador
Poll Shows Divide Within
NPR
A new study from the Pew Research Center says four out of every 10 blacks believe African Americans should not be thought of as a single race. NPR senior correspondent Juan Williams explains the figures.
Maria W. Stewart
Occupation: writer and political activist
Dates: 1803 - 1879
This day in black History
