EBONY January Cover Star Idris Elba and media mogul Mo Abudu are partnering to develop TV and film projects centered on stories from the African diaspora, reports Deadline. Through their production companies, Elba’s Green Door Pictures and Abundu’s EbonyLife Media,…
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Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira’s ‘Americanah’ Series Axed Due to COVID-19
According to Variety, the adaptation of the popular Americanah novel into a series has been cancelled entirely. The news comes after shooting for the production at the beginning of the year was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. HBO Max…
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Meet Four Women Pushing Ivorian Art Forward Through Photography
There’s been a tremendous amount of awe-inspiring art coming from the African continent lately. Photography is no exception. It is one of the most powerful tools used in changing the way in which the West perceives Africa and its diaspora…
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Dying Lagoons Reveal Mexico’s Environmental Racism
On an early morning in September 2017, in a little fishing village in the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, called Zapotalito, thousands of dead fish floated on the surface of the Chacahua-Pastoría lagoons. A 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which rattled Mexico City on…
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Raoul Peck’s, ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ Is a Must-Watch In the Wake of George Floyd’s Murder
Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s masterpiece, I Am Not Your Negro, was released in 2016, but is based on James Baldwin’s last unpublished book, Remember This House. I am not Your Negro captures Baldwin’s reflections on the assassinations of his three…
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Curling: Another Sub-Zero Sport Hopes to Thrive In Africa
During winter in 2017, Sheila Daniel, a sixth grade pupil at St. Michael, Paderborn in Germany persuaded her Nigerian parents to attend a curling tournament where she and her friends were representing the school. It took a four-hour drive from…
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‘The Last Tree’ Is a Complex Exploration of the Life of a Young, British-Nigerian Man
The Last Tree, directed by British-Nigerian director, Shola Amoo, is the semi-autobiographical story of Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. In his…
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The Rise of Stan Culture In Afrobeats
Last month, over half a million people, from 99 countries tuned into No Signal’s livestream to join the “clash” between Wizkid and Vybz Kartel. The clash was the most legendary one that the No Signal team had hosted since they…
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Bisa Butler Summons Black History In Her Quilted Arts to Motivate the Fight for Black Lives
There’s a lovely tradition that exists of artists who are African by lineage, but born and bred in the diaspora creating art by summoning the continent as a source of motivation and inspiration in order to tell the myriad stories…
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