Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

It is now almost three decades, when the crisis in violatile great lake Eastern regional city of Goma in Democratic Republic of the Congo started, with heavy violence carried out by the brutal ...

Nestled in the heart of Arizona’s Verde Valley, there’s a hidden gem that’s just begging to be discovered. Camp Verde, a small town with a big history, is home to Fort Verde State Historic Park, a ...

Mr. Smith is a musician and the author of “The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American ...

Often dubbed as ‘the Venice of Africa ’ , Ganvié is located near the southern shores of Benin in West Africa. With its ...

Nestled in the heart of Arizona’s Verde Valley, there’s a hidden gem that’s been quietly preserving a slice of the Old West for over a century. Camp Verde, a small town with a big history, is home to ...

Thirteen South Africans were killed last month by the most dangerous man in the world: Rwandan president Paul Kagame.

Quite frankly, Amaechi and El-Rufai were dead right. Nigerians are too docile and possess incredibly short-spanned memory. It is these two limitations that Nigerian politicians capitalise upon to ...

There is often the risk of getting carried away by the eloquence of the Reverend (Dr.) Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), the African-American civil rights Baptist Minister, so much that a significant part ...

As the sun rose on Jan. 8, the sky orange from ash and smoke, Angelenos anxiously waited for news about the extent of the damage from the ...

Last week’s column, (see “The American backlash against modernity,” 1/26/25) elicited responses that seemed to conflate three distinct yet related ideas: modernity, “wokeness,” and diversity, equity, ...