"If that pisses people off, then, in a way, the job's being done," Larry Achiampong said.

Imagine the disgust felt by black nationalist Marcus Garvey when he first heard the 1900 song mocking the African diaspora and its lack of a flag. Not only was there a racist song deriding the ...

Well, it all started during the scramble for Africa, Ethiopia was the only African country besides Liberia that retained its sovereignty as a recognized independent country. When other African nations ...

The Juneteenth flag, created by activist Ben Haith in 1997, has become a symbol to celebrate Black emancipation in the US. The flag features 3 symbols — a five-point star, a bursting star, and an arc ...

What was described as the last racial issue in the Union of South Africa was last week removed when Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts, now leader ...

The Pan African flag was hoisted above the Orange County fairgrounds in Costa Mesa Tuesday and will fly throughout February to mark Black History Month, ostensibly concluding a two-year battle over ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A person using a flamethrower set fire Saturday to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the headquarters of the Uhuru Movement, a Black international socialist group ...

The debate regarding the prominence of the Confederate flag added an international element when photos of Dylann Roof, the man who killed nine people last week in the Charleston church massacre, ...

African leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations.

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