Diaspora

A Virginia man, stuck in Egypt for the last six weeks living in a cheap hotel and surviving on fast food, said last Wednesday his name was placed on a U.S. no-fly list because of a trip to Yemen.

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In 1961, the year Barack Obama’s parents were married, less than one in 1,000 new marriages in the United States was, like theirs, the pairing of a black person and a white person, according to Pew Research estimates.

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Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into the capital’s most violent slums on last Tuesday, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the United States. At least 30 people have died, officials said.

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Pirates kidnapped two Russian sailors during an attack on a cargo ship off the coast of Cameroon, the latest act of violence along West Africa’s increasingly insecure coast, a private security official said last Wednesday.

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Nigerian lawmakers approved a Muslim politician as the new vice president of Africa’s most populous nationlast Tuesday, despite the legislative session descending into screaming chaos at several points.

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Nigeria swore in its new president, a Christian, this week after months of leadership confusion while its elected president was receiving medical treatment. Goodluck Jonathan, who has been Nigeria’s acting president since February, officially became president of Nigeria.

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South Africa’s renewed commitment to combat AIDS has drawn praise, but in the worst-hit province in the worst-hit country in the world, life , and death , hasn’t changed much because of stigma and a lack of resources.

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Here, she talks about the riveting documentary, which will be voiceovered by Wyclef Jean and Edwidge Danticat and told from the perspectives of 6 year-old orphan Candy Jeune and a freed slave named Marc Kenson Oliphi.

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The most remarkable moment at this year’s Oscar® ceremony may have been the interrupted acceptance speech that was heard around the world. But the 21-year-old woman whose life inspired the film that won the Best Documentary (Short Subject) award is far more remarkable still.

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Howard Dodson, Jr., a national leader in the movement to preserve African American history, will retire from his position as Director of The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in February 2011.

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