-
5 Afrocentric ways to make your clothes look expensive
Getting rid of old clothes can be difficult. It is not any easier even when your wardrobe or closet is bursting at the seams and you know for a fact you cannot go through all of the clothes even if you...
-
Explore the history of Nigeria’s Cocoa House, the first skyscraper in West Africa
In the mid-1900s, the decolonization of Africa took place. Many countries and territories gained their freedom and independence from European superpowers. This meant total self-rule, with the control and...
-
Nigerian-born Brit cop may be fired for appearing on Big Brother Naija and ‘having sex’
Big Brother Nigeria contestant Khafilat “Khafi” Kareem is likely to lose her job as a policewoman in London after joining the show without permission. Khafi, a Metropolitan Police officer in...
-
5 black beauty queens who made pageant history while rocking their natural hair
Beauty pageants have, over the years, usually been a breeding ground for the perpetuation of the Eurocentric concept of beauty; stick-thin women, pale skin and flowing straight hair. Contestants the world...
-
Mother of 12-yr-old boy shot in bed by Chicago police in botched raid seeks damages
A 12-year-old boy, Amir Worship, may find it difficult to walk or run for the rest of his life after he was shot recently in a police raid that went horribly wrong at his home in Illinois, a lawsuit says....
-
Why this forgotten woman could be America’s first black millionaire instead of C.J. Walker
When African-American trailblazers are being celebrated, names like Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King Jr. always come up and are revered and regarded as sources of pride in African-American...