• Mukoma wa Ngugi

To end racism, we will have to change the structures from which it draws its mandate, and get rid of liberal and right-wing politicians who give it oxygen while we are being asphyxiated.

• Jeanne-Marie Jackson

How do white South African writers confront the country's as well as their own pasts?

• Greg Burris

Activists in the occupied territories reinvent the Freedom Rides of 1960s America and in the process link US and Palestinian struggles for liberation.

• Tunde Wey

Reflections from New Orleans, Louisiana—the US's most African city—on the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Rasna Warah

The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.

• Abraham T. Zere

A new thriller by Andrew Welsh-Huggins follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a Somali-American teenager in Ohio.

• Christopher J. Lee

Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Lines of Descent (2014) argues that W. E. B. Du Bois’s two years as a graduate student in Berlin vitally informed his views on race and politics.

• Grégory Pierrot

The TV series "Watchmen" deserves credit for how it put unsung elements of black history into mainstream culture.

• Anthony Comber-Badu

Black popular culture has gained two new heroes in Queen & Slim—a film about desperate violence.

• Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.

• Prexy Nesbitt

Historian Peter Cole’s book on dockworkers in apartheid South Africa and San Francisco gets beyond slogans to vital historical truths.

• Modupeola Oyebolu

The Nigerian-American writer, Tope Folarin, wrestles with blackness and black immigrant identity in his new novel.

• Boluwatife Akinro
• Joshua Segun-Lean

Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa.

• R. Joseph Parrott

The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.

• Remi Brulin

A radical critique of the discourse on terrorism and, specifically, of repeated Israeli and US claims to moral superiority in the fight against “terrorism,” is long overdue.

• Hisham Aïdi

Malcolm X is a powerful optic through which to understand America's post-war ascendance and expansion into the Middle East.

• Rishi Nath

Ed Pavlic's new novel follows two lovers trading Chicago for Mombasa.

• Abraham T. Zere

An US congressional delegation to Eritrea—the first in 14 years—which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?

• Drew Thompson

Ozier Muhammad captures, for black American audiences, the expressive possibilities of Africa's liberation struggles.

• Joeva Rock
• Jacob M. Grumbach

The involvement of far right and conservative think tanks in developing Trump's Africa agenda.