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Third Culture Kid

VOLDA APPIA-KUSI, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Growing up in America as the first-generation daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, I knew I was...

The Black Identity Trifecta

Esterline Violet-Elanus What is my Black identity? For a good portion of my life, I have been struggling with my true Black identity, the...

Pan-African Identity

Pan- Africanism in the late 19th century was a movement focused on a wide range of political views, ideologies, cultural facts and the...

SEPTIMUS SEVERUS: AN AFRICAN BORN EMPEROR OF ROME

RUNOKO RASHIDI In 193 C.E. Septimius Severus became emperor of Rome. It was just four years earlier, in 189 C.E., that Victor I, an...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MADAM C. J. WALKER—AND THANK YOU

LINDSEY NORWARD, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Born only two years after slavery’s official end, Madam C.J....

What of the African presence in early China? Have there been Black people in China? If so, what be

What of the African presence in early China? Have there been Black people in China? If so, what became of them? What happened to the...

PAN-AFRICANISM RELEVANCY: A SOLUTION

The 1855 Post-Berlin Conference was a catalyst to a majority of the social, political, and economic issues faced by countries in Africa...

Love Letter to Ghana

ALESIA NICOLE MILES, UNIVERSITY OF GHANA My dearest, I want to say that I've never met a person, visited a place, or encountered a...

A Trick Reflection: How I Handled Being Black in Africa

DAVID CURTISS, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY “Webale nyo. Webale nyo.” That means “thank you very much” in Lugandan. It was all I could think of to...

Never before has the opportunity for digital infrastructure existed to connect Black college students globally.

Black students all over the world are facing various challenges from systematic racism to colonial systems of oppression.

With new found connection, collaborative solutions, and the pursuit of new realities, new futures are finally possible.