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The Night That Obama and Hillary Founded ISIS

August 16, 2016September 4, 2016Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ...

It was late one night in the White House when Obama first came up with the idea for ISIS.

Debate flares after black college students seek a non-white roommate

August 15, 2016September 4, 2016African American Education, Education ...

Three students at the Claremont colleges in Southern California were looking for a fourth this summer to join them in an off-campus house. They added a caveat in parentheses: “POC only,” they said, using a common abbreviation for people of color.

A Generation Is Protesting’ in Ethiopia, Long a U.S. Ally

August 15, 2016September 4, 2016Africa, African Economics ...

Is Ethiopia about to crack? For the last decade, it has been one of Africa’s most stable nations, a solid Western ally with a fast-growing economy. But in recent months, antigovernment protests have convulsed the country, spreading into more and more areas.

Afropreneurs: Ugandan Entrepreneur Sarah Nakintu Is Taking Her ‘African-Inspired’ Luxury Handbags Global

August 13, 2016September 4, 2016Africa, Africa Fashion ...

At 15-years-old, Sarah Nakintu would go hunting for weekend outfits among the open-air stalls of Owino, Kampala’s secondhand clothing market.

‘The Get Down’ Tells the Story Behind the Birth of Hip-Hop

August 13, 2016September 4, 2016African American Cinema, African American Film ...

Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series The Get Down is a fantastical bildungsroman set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the late 1970s.

7 Traditional African Sports that Should Be in the Olympics

August 12, 2016September 4, 2016Africa, African History ...

The Olympic Games may go back 3,000 years to Ancient Greece, but the international sporting event that takes place every four years didn’t take on its modern form until 1896.

Separate But Unequal: ‘Pioneers of African-American Cinema’

August 12, 2016September 4, 2016African American Cinema, African American Film ...

Race films were produced especially for “colored only” or “Negro theatres” that catered to African-American neighborhoods during the era of legal segregation.