Every idiot likes to speculate on what the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. would be thinking or doing if he were alive today so I figured, why should I be any different? So here’s what I think: Dr. King would be married to a white woman and living in Africa if he were alive […]

If you were struck with amnesia tonight while you slept, tomorrow would be the first day of your life. You’d wake up not knowing whom you were, what you were or what you were supposed to be doing. You’d have to start all over. You’d probably spend several hours in self-reflection, checking our your surroundings […]

KeKe Palmer is such a class act. The teen sensation turns 17 today is has issued a request to her fans to donate to her charity where she will donate 100% of the proceeds to bringing African villages clean water. On the donation site KeKe explains why.

From NYTimes.com: From a 542-square-foot office above a bustling intersection in Harlem, the Rev. Nicholas S. Richards is building what he hopes will be a 7,000-mile bridge to the eastern highlands of Ethiopia. It is a bridge more than 200 years in the making. In that modest two-room office off East 125th Street, the Abyssinian […]

Cameroonian photographer Mario Epanya has spent much of his free time shooting a fictional magazine. That’s right. Epanya went all out in his campaign to make “Vogue Africa” a reality. Vogue is currently published in 18 countries and one region, but Africa has never been selected to play home to the mag. In order to […]

Six Student Ambassadors of The Echo Foundation “ECHO ABROAD: Footsteps in Rwanda” program will travel to Rwanda for two weeks of leadership training and international service July 4-18, 2010. The Student Ambassadors are Charlotte-area high school students and recent high school graduates chosen for the program on the basis of academic merit, demonstrated community service, […]

The 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival of the Carolinas kicks starts officially today at Independence Park. Dozens of youth attended the festival's youth day camp on Thursday. There will be an inaugural drum circle today at 4 p.m. There's a parade at 10 a.m. Saturday.

juju (from the African Hausa language) – an object used as a fetish, a charm or an amulet in West Africa, or the supernatural power ascribed to such an object.

FROM VOGUE: Who doesn’t love a great summer tee? And a tee that benefits African schoolchildren with supplies, hot lunches, and teacher salaries? Even better. In honor of the FIFA 2010 World Cup, Ali Hewson, founder of the environmentally and socially conscious label EDUN, is celebrating efforts in Africa with four inspired T-shirts. “We asked […]

I was surfing the net and happened upon www.myasho.com. It’s a site that was developed in 2008 to celebrate and promote the talent of African designers based throughout the world.  The site’s name is derived from the Yoruba word “aso” meaning cloth.  It is pronounced ash-awe. The site works closely with designers and stylists, choosing […]

Ethnic-inspired clothing and jewelry are among the hottest spring 2010 trends. Prints from all over are great, but the biggest winners are those featuring designs from Africa. Designers like Nicole Miller, Tracy Feith, Marc Jacobs, Korto Momolu and Juanjo Oliva take this trend and twirl it into mod shift dresses, cropped ‘Cosby Sweaters’ and floor-length […]

VIA: Join Red Blog Today is International Women’s Day and The Global Fund, the organization used to put (RED) money on the ground in Africa, released a report stating that the virtual elimination of mother to child HIV transmission by 2015 is now within reach if current rates of progress by Global Fund-supported programs and […]