Africans in America rebrand the continent: Young people like New York-based Ghana native Sandra Appiah are working to battle negative and stereotypical portrayals of Africa that have nothing to do ...

The Trump administration is preparing to welcome the first group of white South African refugees to the United States as early as next week, according to three sources familiar with the matter. This ...

For 200 years — the 17th and 18th centuries — Africans came to America involuntarily and enslaved. Then fast forward to the 21st century. The news is sub-Saharan Africans are coming to America ...

A BLACK STUDENT was visiting the Jim Crow South when he entered a barbershop. The white barber looked at him and reportedly told him, “I do not cut nigger hair.” The student responded, “I am not a ...

It’s time we had an uncomfortable conversation. One we needed to have years ago but merely swept under the rug. Now, President Trump’s aggressive immigration policies are forcing our hand. There is a ...

When the United States speaks clearly about how it sees the world, we should pay attention, not because America is always right, but because its assumptions have a habit of shaping power, markets, and ...

Nate Tinner-Williams, a Globe contributing opinion writer, is cofounder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger. Most retellings of Black history in the United States start with Britain’s city of ...