Two Eritreans, sold as slaves, share harrowing details of their time inside illegal detention centres in Libya.

Richard Wright did not expect his neighbor’s houseboy to be a fan of Mickey Spillane when he visited Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast, in 1953. The boy had knocked on the door of the black...

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Earlier this week, Black Pussy announced the cancellation of yet another concert, this one at Seattle's Funhouse that was originally scheduled for Saturday, March 17. The all-white, all-male rock...

Our view of China as a racially homogeneous country is partly the product of political propaganda.

‘Black Panther’ features the best villain the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever seen

Portland native Esperanza Spalding might have jumped onto the national radar by winning the infamously snake-bitten Best New Artist Grammy in 2011, but to this point, her career hardly seems cursed.

An estimated 77 million Americans have a debt that has been transferred to a private collection agency. Thousands end up in jails. African Americans and Hispanics are most affected, due to acknowle...

Former US president also talks about life after leaving office in rare interview conducted by prince for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme

Bristol taxpayers in 2015 were still paying off debt borrowed by the government to “compensate” slave owners in 1833, the Treasury has revealed.

Marvel Studios' "Black Panther" is being hailed as the most diverse superhero movie in Hollywood history, but it's not diverse enough for some progressives who want to know: Where

The owners of Cox Farms have always taken politically charged stands at their Northern Virginia property, but they were floored by the massive backlash to this one.

I heard about the death of Ursula K. Le Guin about the time I also read of yet another school shooting.

A new report discloses at least five previously unreported mass graves in Myanmar, adding further evidence of the systematic killing of Rohingya Muslim civilians by the country’s military. ...

Album · Ludwig Göransson · 2018 · 28 songs

As a Smithsonian exhibition takes on stereotypes and a Cherokee-written play takes the stage, Native American voices are being amplified

A closer look at the muddy island identified by Bangladesh as the short-term solution to the humanitarian crisis.

North Korea, desperate for foreign currency, has sent tens of thousands of its citizens to Russia, where they are welcomed as “fast, cheap and reliable” laborers.

SAN DIEGO — A two-day anti-human trafficking operation resulted in hundreds of arrests across the state, including 38 in San Diego County, authorities announced Tuesday.The thi…

Cinema has long reduced Africa to a faraway land filled with wild animals, wars, poverty and Aids – but perhaps this new Afrocentric epic will put an end to the cliches

Powerful politics, complex villains, and strong black women.

Relations between the anointed ‘representative’ writer and those who are denied this privilege by white gatekeepers...

Instead, the new census questionnaire may tell people to check the “categories” that describe them.

Fueled by pent-up demand for both outside views and local authors, Kabul book publishers and sellers are flourishing — and feeding a need for escape.

Her death at United Medical Center was part of why its obstetrics ward was closed, cutting off medical care for expecting mothers in D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods.

For all his channeling of James Baldwin, Coates seems to have forgotten that black people “can’t afford despair.”