PASSAGES Series Pt. 3: Returning
Part three of Imani Ballard’s and Kayshon Paris’ PASSAGES, a video series focused on connecting and amplifying a global community of color by reclaiming their…
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The PASSAGES Series Pt. 2: African American Cultural Identity
Imani Ballard and Kayshon Paris, young adults from Newark, New Jersey, created PASSAGES, a video series focused on connecting and amplifying a global community…
The PASSAGES Series Pt. 1: Existing Beyond Trump’s America
Growing up in the United States taught both Imani Ballard and Kayshon Paris one thing – the way you look not only shapes society’s…
Where Are You from? Notes on National Identity from an African-American in Spain
By Abena Wariebi Reporting from the Catalonian city of Barcelona, Abena Wariebi discusses national identity from an African-American perspective, assessing the differences between American and…
The Afropolitan Festival, 03.02.17- 05.02.17, Brussels
The Afropolitan Festival is three days of exceptional programming dedicated to Afropolitan art, creativity and state of mind, presented by BOZAR and its partners,…
We Are Not The Same
By Abena Wariebi Insights from an African-American student in Barcelona on the lack of a “black community” and the gulf, both literal and metaphorical,…
Notes of An African American Intern in Europe: Part 2
In her second diary entry, Afropean’s intern Imani Ballard reflects on the Colonial power on display in some of Europe’s cultural spaces, and grapples…
Notes of an African American Intern In Europe: Part 1
Imani Ballard is writer and sophomore undergraduate student at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. On a month long internship at Afropean.com, in a series…
African American Interest & Experiences in Russia: A Brief History
By Robert Fikes, Jr. Robert Fikes, Jr., Librarian at San Diego State University, recounts the history of the African American presence in Russia from…
New York with Les Nubians
Les Nubians are Hélène and Célia Faussart, the grammy-nominated French-Chad sister duo who have worked with everybody from Talib Kweli and Mos Def to Manu Dibango…
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