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October 22, 2020
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released an agenda to support the African diaspora with just days left until Election Day…
September 27, 2020
While much of the world has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, multiple nations in Africa have managed to…
September 26, 2020
With Zimbabwe’s coronavirus infections on the decline, schoolschurches, bars, restaurants, airports and tourist attractions are reopening.
September 23, 2020
John Nkengasong has helped to steer Africa’s 54 countries into an alliance praised as responding better to virus than other…
September 12, 2020
More than 50 people are dead after landslides caused the collapse of three artisanal gold mines in eastern Congo on…
September 11, 2020
Bishop Joseph W. Tolton launched The Wakanda Project, a campaign seeking to ignite a 21st century Pan African justice movement.
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September 3, 2020
Akon doesn’t just want Wakanda to be a fictional place in the blockbuster movie Black Panther but is building a…
August 19, 2020
OPINION: Trump has favored inserting his idea of Africa into domestic 'culture wars' rather than engaging the continent constructively.
July 28, 2020
The U.S. establishment of Liberia in West Africa is emblematic of the pervasiveness of American anti-Blackness, says theGrio's Christina M.…
July 1, 2020
A protest against Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine trial was underway as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing.
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June 27, 2020
South Africa is the first African nation to participate in a COVID-19 vaccine trial that started Wednesday. Britain and Brazil…
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June 16, 2020
Dash Harris' docu-series 'NEGRO: A DOCU-SERIES ABOUT LATINX IDENTITY' provokes conversations surrouding identity, colonization, racism and the African Diaspora.
June 16, 2020
African nations have prepared a draft resolution at the U.N.’s human rights body that singles out the US over systemic…
June 2, 2020
From Sydney to Paris, world outrage at George Floyd’s death in the U.S. grew as the European Union’s top diplomat…
May 28, 2020
Apple Music is launching its first radio show in Africa.
May 8, 2020
The coronavirus could “smolder” in Africa for years and take a high death toll across the continent, the World Health…
May 4, 2020
Travel entrepreneur Rashad McCrorey shares how his new life in Ghana is going after choosing to live there indefinitely amid…
April 30, 2020
NIgerian director Niyi Akinmolayan made an animated PSA to help kids understand the dangers of the coronavirus and he shared…
Africans in China theGrio.com
April 20, 2020
In the Chinese government's attempt to blame Africans for the second wave of COVID-19 cases, they have evicted many of…
April 16, 2020
A Connecticut mother, TaNesha Barnes, tells theGrio why she decided to move to Morocco with her 11-year-old daughter and pursue…