The Afro Beat

Here's a documentary worth checking out. The film follows a group of talented musicians who fled the civil war in their home country of ...

This article from the Washington Post is just one of many these days decrying the media's (and the Western world's) portrayal of Af...

This post was initially an email sent to us from Nnamdi Awa-Kalu (thanks Nnamdi!) but we decided to share it on the Beat because of the inte...

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I shamelessly stole this topic from Jeremy's Blog , but we can pretend he emailed the article to me as his first contribution to The Afr...

Several members of The Afro Beat watched this documentary. We flinched at the derogatory comments, and were unsure how to respond or react,...

Kome is a student at Stanford University, and she is a member of The Afro Beat. She sent us this link to a This Day newspaper article on Fr...