BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS NOW AN ESTABLISHED PART OF THE YEAR. LET’S CELEBRATE ITS SUCCESS. (It is) an American import, a concept brought to Britain in the 1980s. In the […]

BLACK GERMANS SAY IT’S TIME TO LOOK INWARD. The Black Lives Matter movement saw shows of solidarity around the world this summer. In Germany, some feel there is a reluctance […]

AMERICA’S BLACK BRAIN DRAIN: WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS ARE MOVING ABROAD — AND STAYING THERE. It was 2013, and Najoh Tita-Reid, then an executive at pharmaceutical giant Merck, was in the midst […]

A RACIAL AWAKENING IN FRANCE, WHERE RACE IS A TABOO TOPIC. PARIS — Growing up in France, Maboula Soumahoro never thought of herself as Black.At home, her immigrant parents stressed […]

BEING BLACK ABROAD WHEN YOUR HOME COUNTRY DOESN’T FEEL LIKE HOME ANYMORE. I’m a Black American woman and I live in Germany—Munich, Germany to be exact. While racism isn’t anything new […]