Discover the importance of independent Black media, like the AFRO, in the fight for voting rights and how supporting them is ...

Afro Charities, the nonprofit partner to the AFRO, will host its annual fundraiser at Cinghiale in Baltimore on June 7. The event will raise money for the organization’s operating costs as it ...

AfroCannes is leaning into Afro Futurism with its 2025 lineup. Since launching in 2022, AfroCannes and its AfroBerlin sibling have become spaces to discuss and celebrate narratives from Africa and the ...

When first-generation Eritrean American Weyni Kahsay was a child, she looked forward to the moments she could dance in traditional Eritrean dresses, surrounded by the sounds, smells and colors of her ...

Imagine a space where Africa’s musicians, fashion designers, artists and digital storytellers meet to network, collaborate, and ultimately innovate together. Imagine the kind of ideas and cultural ...

As the article hit social media, Black women slammed the fashion publication for trying to reshape a staple of Black culture. Vogue Magazine is being slammed on social media for trying to reframe the ...

PAST ISSUES OF THE AFRO. SO WHEN YOU SEE 1947, IT’S FROM THE YEAR 1947. HISTORY FILLS THESE SHELVES, TELLING THE STORIES THAT BACK THEN WERE IGNORED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. WHEN YOU OPEN THIS UP, YOU ...

The reason why McCalla created Afro Index was that she felt like there was a misrepresentation of Black hairstyles.

IZMIR — On one of the first warm days in September, members of the tiny Afro-Turk community gathered in the city center of Izmir, in western Turkey. Women in bright printed dresses wore regal headwear ...

You may not know her name, but the striking work of self-taught hair artist Elisabeth Anayes Niouky is certainly turning heads. Niouky, based in the West African country of Senegal, crafts modern ...