Kampala, Uganda—With food gone and six children to feed, 40-year-old Zawadi Kizungu had no choice but to walk miles to find food, and stepped into [...]

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — When 21-year-old Anne Christelle Ntsama gave birth to quadruplets, she was over the moon. She believed her children, who had been born [...]

Artists are blazing a new path to battle isolation, boredom and sagging spirits: home delivery. The Driveway Drag Show carries on, even for Richmond’s city [...]

Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 more frequently than white people. But two researchers found it’s not because of obesity or poverty. Massachusetts Institute of [...]

The Fourth of July is celebrated as the anniversary of American independence in 1776. In 1852, Frederick Douglass asked, “Are the great principles of political freedom and [...]

Employers with more than 300 employees might get kicked out of the Paycheck Protection Program, if one senator succeeds. During debate on the floor of [...]

By Dr. Daniel Durant Myers Jr How I Live with Prostate Cancer provides an in-depth personal and scientific account of the author’s battle with prostate cancer. [...]

Experienced by Kimatni D. Rawlins Good day, you’ve found me in the presence of the 2020 Rolls-Royce Cullinan, the baddest and most luxurious SUV on [...]

If you haven’t found Pete Davidson funny after six years on “Saturday Night Live,” two hours watching his semi-biographical film “The King of Staten Island” [...]

Fourteen-year-old Maria Malaso was supposed to be married to a 64-year-old man a few weeks after the Kenyan government ordered the suspension of schools in mid-March [...]

The nation could see thousands more cases of coronavirus, the country’s top infectious disease specialist said Tuesday. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute [...]

For street vendor Barbra Anyinge, who normally sells shoes in Lira, a town in northern Uganda, the pandemic has made one essential especially scarce: sunscreen. [...]

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President Donald Trump didn’t hear a supporter use the words “white power” in a video he retweeted, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Monday. [...]

Ava L. Hall’s journey amplifying a global brand, global good and Black culture around the world. Having a position is one thing.  Doing so with [...]

A swarm of desert locusts following a poor harvest season has added to fears about a lack of food for millions in Kenya, as the [...]

By NNPA newswire Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia In a letter Democratic Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) [...]

Kenyans in rural areas and a port city region who expected to get electricity next year might be disappointed. The African Development Bank Group suspended [...]

They know the risks of attending an “unauthorized assembly” in Hong Kong. Thousands come anyway. They sidestep the Great Firewall of China to organize via [...]

By Taroue Brooks How did you get started creating art? I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, I was a creative and inquisitive child, and [...]

By Meryl Pearlstein (Manta, ECUADOR – June 2020)   After an extensive planning and construction period, the start-up Kontiki Expeditions will launch their maiden voyages this fall. A new concept in [...]

More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest. And to help them, a group [...]

Mara basks in the sun, both happy and exhausted, the memories of a COVID-19 quarantine and a thousand-mile journey fresh in her mind. She never [...]

After weeks of media coverage about rioters and looters who hijacked protests following George Floyd’s death, Washington D.C. held its breath as Juneteenth marches wound [...]