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  Celebrating Emancipation Day as an African American in Ghana

  Deidre Gantt

  “Is she a slave?” That’s what a young boy asked a mutual friend of ours in Cape Coast, Ghana, Sunday afternoon. I had met him once before, when I had volunteered to photograph a party...

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  Black Lives Matter: Reactions from the Diaspora

  Deidre Gantt

  As the Internet continues to facilitate a greater global awareness and sense of community among people of African descent, we are becoming more present to the challenges each other face in different parts...

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  Police Violence in America: Is Going ‘Back to Africa’ a Viable Solution?

  Deidre Gantt

  It has been 12 days since Jesse Williams gave his impassioned speech on the value of Black lives at the 2016 BET Awards. Four days since America celebrated its Founding Fathers’ war to escape the...

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  Jesse Williams, Tamir, and Schaquanna – Making Black Lives Matter in America

  Deidre Gantt

  Social media has exploded once again, this time with praise (and the inevitable criticism) of African American actor Jesse Williams’ powerful acceptance speech during the BET Awards last night. In...

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  Giraffe ‘Mobisite’ Links Unemployed South Africans to Opportunities

  Deidre Gantt

  Unemployment is a serious challenge that many nations across the continent are struggling to solve. Despite South Africa’s position as one of Africa’s largest economies, its joblessness...

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  African American Student Ejected from Graduation over Kente Cloth?

  Deidre Gantt

  One of the values that supposedly makes the United States great is respect for individuality – the right to buck the system, to refuse conformity. It’s the key difference between America and...

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