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The article discusses the new exhibit "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876– Now" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, aiming to attract diverse audiences, especially African Americans and the global African presence. The exhibit challenges racist, Eurocentric perspectives by showcasing modern Black artists' engagement with ancient Egyptian art and culture. The exhibit includes unique features like the Performance Pyramid, Alpha's Bet reading room, and "A New Song" music gallery, highlighting connections between Black culture and ancient Egypt. The exhibit will be on display until February 17, 2025, and aims to celebrate the creations of Black artists and people of color. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on how Afrobeats, Nollywood & diaspora leaders are reshaping global perception of Africa, challenging longstanding negative stereotypes, discusses impact of cultural exports on narrative surrounding Africa & empowerment of Africans & their diaspora through self-representation.

The article focuses on the 7th Annual Africa Open for Business Summit, held during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, in Trusteeship Council Chamber at United Nations Headquarters, New York, on September 27, 2024, brought together leaders from the African diaspora to discuss various issues.

The article reports that Haitian Americans in New York City are criticizing ex-president Donald Trump for his comments about Springfield, Ohio-based Haitian immigrants eating of pets during his presidential debate with vice president Kamala Harris. Topics discussed include New York City Haitian American community leaders' support of the presidential bid of Harris, their plans to travel to Springfield, and the history of Haitians in New York City and their contribution to Black diaspora.

The article explores the growing trend of African diaspora tourism, which focuses on cultural enrichment rather than traditional leisure travel. Topics discussed include the success of Ghana's Year of Return campaign, the impact of heritage tourism on local economies, and the rise of curated diaspora travel experiences in various countries.

The article reports that no assistance from local authorities have been received by Blacks in Ukraine and they have been denied chances to escape Russian military attack on Ukraine. Topics discussed include only way out of Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv, difficulties faced by African emigres and students, and remarks from Solomon Macson III, an advisor to Expat South Africa.

The article informs Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, founder of New York's Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, responds to leaked audio revealing racial divides within the Latino community, prompting her to create the "Absolutamente Negro/a/x-Absolutely Black" conversation series, fostering national discussions on Afro Latino concerns, addressing racism, erasure, and the need for a united Afro Latino coalition.

An interview with Sheila Walker, director of Afrodiaspora Global LLC and chair of the international academic council of the Pan-African Heritage Museum, is presented. She discussed her journey into understanding the African diaspora, her academic career, activism, and efforts in creating curricular materials about Afro Latinos to rectify Eurocentric distortions of history in Latin America.

The article focuses on the celebration of Arturo Schomburg's 150th birthday with a "Transcribe-a-thon" at the Schomburg Center, where volunteers transcribe letters and documents from Schomburg's extensive African diaspora art and book collection, aiming to preserve and make his collection more accessible through accurate transcriptions.

The article highlights St. Paul Community Baptist Church's 29th annual presentation of "The MAAFA Suite...A Healing Journey," which commemorates the Black holocaust and promotes communal healing through educational events, lectures, and theatrical productions. It mentions that the church aims to engage the entire African diaspora in conversations about healing and collective strategies for addressing historical trauma and racial progress.

The article reviews the Armory Show 2023 featured artwork from around the world, with a focus on portraying modern-day African and African diaspora life, including pieces by artists like Marc Padeu, Hilary Balu, Arthur Timothy, and Carlos Idun-Tawiah that captured everyday moments.

The article discusses the political situation in Chile and the struggle of the Afro Chilean population for recognition. Topics explored include the arrival of enslaved Africans in Chile following the African diaspora due to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the plan of action against racism outlined at the 2001 United Nations (UN) World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in South Africa, and the fight for inclusion of the Afro Chileans.

The article discusses the highlights of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, held in Washington, D.C. on December 13-15, 2022. Topics include geopolitical role of Africa, cultural and historical bonds of the African diaspora community, U.S. foreign policy that strengthen U.S.-Africa relations and resiliency of Africans and African diaspora.

The article discusses the 15th season of AfroPoP, a documentary series showcasing the best films from across the African diaspora.

The author comments on Covid-19 testing for African diaspora immigrant communities. Topics discussed include call to public health community to reflect on how this virus shaped the health and human rights of African diaspora immigrant communities in New York, stories that compelled the author and colleagues at the African Services Committee (ASC) to build a culturally-conscious testing program for Covid-19, and estimated number of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests administered by ASC.

The article offers news briefs related to the jazz music. It is stated that non-profit organization Arts for Art will continue their presentation of "JAZZ LIBRE: Multi-Cultural Free-Jazz," highlighting music of the African diaspora and Latin America. It is noted that jazz singer Eunice Newkirk will continue his vocal journey "The Two Sides of Eunice" up close at W83 Redeemer Presbyterian Church on November 12, 2022.

The article informs that the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) will celebrate its 28th anniversary nationwide for the first time from November 27, 2020 to December 13, 2020. The festival will showcase 75 narratives and documentaries from 31 countries exploring the full humanity and human experience of people of color all over the world.

In this article, the author talks about Arikana Chihombori Quao, African Union Ambassador to the U.S., who is on a mission to rescue Africa, the people of Africa and the African diaspora. It mentions that Quao wants rest of the airports in Africa to be built by Black people; and African Diaspora Development Institute is going to be the one-stop shop for everything diaspora in the world.

The article highlights the work of pianist Michele Rosewoman and her contribution to the jazz music. Topics discussed include Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble New Yor-Uba released new album "Hallowed" commissioned by Chamber Music America, and finest spirited representation of Cuban folklorist music and jazz infused with energetic notes of the African diaspora.

The article offers information on the ninth annual African Diaspora Awards by the Society for Africans in the Diaspora that took place at the Schomburg Center for Black Research in Black Culture in which African leaders and others were honored who are doing important work in the cause of Africa.

The article offers information on the Society for Africans in Diaspora's eighth annual African Diaspora Awards held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on December 2, 2018.

The article expresses concern over addition of a new question to the 2020 U.S. Census about citizenship of the participant, and mentions that the move will impact U.S.'s Black Diaspora population contains several million continental African, Caribbean and Afro-Latino member.

The article focuses on the African Diaspora Summer Film series to be held at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York City through August 27, 2011.

The article focuses on Gwendolyn Akua Afriyie Gilyard, educator and social justice activist, in New York City. It notes that her apartment in Riverside Drive has been a witness to African diasporan art, politics ad history. It mentions that Gilyard is a graduate of Moultrie High School for Negro Youth. It cites that Gwendolyn has been married to Manuel, chairman of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee.

The article features the message of African Union to the U.S. Ambassador Amina Salum Ali, during the Town Hall meeting of City College, regarding the unity between the diaspora and the African Union.

The article offers information on the sixth annual African Diaspora Awards, an initiative that celebrates individuals who have made contributions in the African community in the U.S., by the periodical "Applause Africa" held at Florence Gould Hall theatre in New York City.

The article offers information on the fourth State of the Black World Conference of the Institute of the Black World to be held on November 16-20, 2016 at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, New Jersey that will evaluate the plight of the African diaspora.

The article discusses the highlights of the condensed version of the 5th African Diaspora Film Festival, featuring film screening of documentaries "Afro-Cuba: Yesterday and Today" and "Sara Gomez" at the Jersey City Museum. The festival series is presented by Reinaldo Barrosa-Spech and Diarah N'Dow, who created ArtMattan Productions. The reaction of Harlem residence Stephanie Francis to the film "Sara Gomez" is highlighted.

The article presents an interview with Marta Moreno Vega, founder and president of Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in Manhattan, New York City. Vega said when the center premiered officially in 1976, the first exhibit was one of the photographs culled from private collections and the Library of Congress. She informed that she realized how deficient the school system was and started research and looking at the various histories of the African Diaspora.

The article focuses on scholar Kewulay Kaimara, who was sent away from his family village of Dankawali to study at a Roman Catholic boarding school in another town. In 1997, he and other Africans of the Diaspora officially created a non-profit organization in New York City called Badenya Inc., dedicated to community building through the mobilization of Africa's expressive cultural resources to inform, educate and service. With Badenya as a supportive ideal, Kaimara said he continuously works to keep the aid flowing to Dankawali, which, like other villages in the region, was destroyed during the war.

The article presents information about Cave Canem Inc.'s Legacy Conversations series, presented last Friday, in collaboration with the Creative Writing Department of the New School, and funding from the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund. Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, was the distinguished guest of the event. The evening, which was the ninth in a series that pays homage to distinguished poets of the African Diaspora, was in keeping with one of Cave Canem's primary missions that of providing a home for the many voices of African-American poetry. INSET: Walcott on display..

This article focuses on the need of a social movement for Diasporic Africans in the U.S. in wake of Hurricane Katrina. Ever since the manipulation by the major media of the alleged success of the civil rights movement, through which, according to the image makers, the socio-political and economic playing field has been leveled, many Diasporic Africans have let their guard down and begun to accept, if not believe, the mirage that the image makers have concocted. After Katrina there should be little if any doubt as to the essence of the "American Democracy" as it relates to Diasporic Africans.

This article focuses on New York-based Brooklyn Academy of Music's 28th annual festival, entitled DanceAfrica 2005 Rhythmic Heritage: Going Full Circle. Under the artistic direction of Founding Elder Chuck Davis, DanceAfrica 2005 focuses on bringing to Brooklyn ancient and modern traditions from Jamaica, the Ivory Coast and throughout the African Diaspora. Since the first production back in 1977, DanceAfrica has been on a mission to preserve and highlight a distinct African artistic, spiritual, and cultural identity by bringing diverse ensembles together to explore the African Diaspora and its influence on everyday urban society. A United Caribbean Dance Force is a company of 21 dancers from Kingston, Jamaica, that was founded in 1978 by dancer/choreographer L'Antoinette Stines and which has become a dynamic ambassador of Jamaican culture. This company was most prominent feature of the festival.

This article reports that the Religious Heritage of the African World (RHAW) is organizing with a number of African Diaspora congregations to promote the first annual Africa Day of Prayer and Action across the United States on May 22, 2005. During Africa Day, African Diaspora faith leaders will participate in programs to highlight and strategize around such pan-African related issues as HIV/AIDS, the debt crisis, trade and investments, and Darfur and the Congo. The RHAW is a project of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC). Founded in 1958, the ITC is strategically located at the Atlanta University Consortium and serves as the primary repository for the study of theology from the African American and African perspectives for the nation, Africa and the African Diaspora. Africa Day, also known as African Liberation Day in Africa and the African Diaspora, is a commemoration and celebration of the historical struggles for African liberation and reunification, culminating in the founding of the Organization of African Unity, now African Union, on May 25, 1963.

The article informs that the 12th annual African Diaspora Film Festival (ADFF), which commenced November 26th at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village, is bursting with intriguing feature films and cutting-edge documentaries, most of which are followed by a Q& A session with the filmmakers. The seventeen-day cinema celebration, created in 1993 by husband-and-wife team Reinaldo BarrosoSpech and Diarah N' Daw-Spech, features more than seventy films depicting the global Black experience. Among the more than 70 films screened at the ADFF is" African Blood," an eye-opening 25-minute documentary on Afro-Mexican identity, directed by Roberto Olivares. " Au Pair Chocolat," directed by Benson McGrath, is a wacky comedy centered on Tawny Washington, a young Harlemite who is hired as an au pair by an upscale Black couple in Martha's Vineyard. Seventy-five minutes of homework can drive anyone bonkers, but" Homework," directed by Kevin Asher Green, is a mildly delirious film about.

This article presents information related to a conference on African Diaspora. The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) and the CUNY African American Network (CAAN) will hold the 4th Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Work in Progress on the African Diaspora at the City University of New York Graduate Center on Friday, October 29, 2004. The conference, will be held at the Graduate Center's Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium and will feature keynote speeches by CUNY Professor Jerry Gafio Watts and Christopher Moore, Curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Over the last decade, 651 Arts has become Brooklyn's premier performing arts presenter of contemporary dance, theater, music and humanities programming grounded in the African Diaspora. The 10 year Gala Anniversary Committee also advised that it is committed to helping Creative Outlet raise funds to solidify its operations and renovate a new headquarters space at Lafayette Presbyterian Church in downtown Brooklyn. The day after being released from a Massachusetts jail, Brown was in family court to tell a judge how he plans to make future child support payments to exgirlfriend Kim Ward.

On May 23, 2003, “DanceAfrica,” an annual celebration of vitality and diversity of the African diaspora, will be performed on stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Prior to the celebration the festival's founder, Baba Chuck Davis, will invoke the ancestors and will pay homage to elders. One of the highlights of the celebration will be the Resurrection Dance Theater of Haiti. The celebration will transform the sprawling stage of the BAM into a village square and the audience of strangers into relatives at a joyous family reunion. The program has spread to a number of major cities across the U.S.

Reports the grand opening plan initiated by the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporian Art in New York, New York. Specifications of the upcoming show; Features of the displays enclosed in the Visual Journey show; Depiction of the practices of Black people and other African tradition.

Features the book `The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey,' by poet and educator Toi Derricotte. Phenomenon of blackness in the African diaspora; Racial self-acceptance; Defying of `mainstream' United States racial categories; Sociopolitical notion of blackness.

Reports that the Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) will host a two-part photo exhibition titled `New York--Los Angeles,' at City College, New York City. When the exhibition will be held; Purpose of the exhibition; Information on works to be exhibited.

The article discusses the African Diaspora Film Festival to be held in New York City from November 25-December 13, 2011, which will feature the films "Flow: For Love of Water," directed by Irena Salina, "An African Election," and "Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story from Egypt,".

The article offers news briefs in New York. The African Union Diaspora High level meeting has been scheduled on October 6, 2011. New York State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. has attended the announcement of revisions to the No Child Left Behind law by U.S. President Barack Obama. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and local officials have provided funds for the transformation of the Engine 212 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn into a town hall and cultural center.

The article discusses the meeting of the African Union and African Diaspora leaders, and activists on the proposed establishment of a United States of Africa in 2017 that was held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City on September 22, 2011.

The article offers information on several events for blacks in New York City in 2011 including the third annual Children's Festival of the Code Foundation on August 13 at St. Andrew's park Playground in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, the African Diaspora International Summer Film Series at the Riverside Theater in Morningside Heights on August 12-21, and the Harlem Week 2011 in August.

The article offers information on the Roots Revisited, an organization which aimed to encourage students to learn more about African Diaspora through cultural college tours.

A photograph of the African Union Diaspora Task Team is presented which is one of the delegates during the two-day conference held at the African Union's New York headquarters on April 26-27, 2011.

The article profiles jazz violinist Regina Carter and her most album "Reverse Thread" as a celebration of the African Diaspora.

The article offers information on the "State of African-American and African Dispora Studies" conference to be held at the Schomburg Center in New York City on January 6-8, 2011.