Posts Tagged ‘African Diaspora’
Living Archives: An African Community Day
Celebrate the traditions and cultural memory of the African diaspora at Living Archives: An African Community Day, an afternoon of storytelling, art, food, dance, and conversation at the Haggerty Museum of Art. Presented in conjunction with the museum’s Fall 2026 exhibition theme, The Otherworld is Home, the program explores culture as something lived, shared, remembered, and renewed across generations.
Read MoreSilicon Valley African Film Festival 2026
Experience Africa through the African lens at the 17th Annual Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF), taking place October 8–11, 2026, at the Historic Hoover Theatre in San Jose, California. This year’s festival brings together 76 films representing 33 countries, offering audiences a diverse collection of narrative and documentary features, short films, and animation from across the African continent and its global communities.
Read MoreAfrica’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives
Renewed interest in the many African languages is helping some descendants around the world connect to their past.
Read MoreGhana suspends citizenship process for people of African descent
The program, one of several that allows descendents of those who were kidnapped into slavery, is intended to return after some improvements.
Read More‘We didn’t make it for a white audience’: how black theatre took centre stage in Australia
Australian artists can enjoy theater starring and directed by Black talent as more of the diaspora participate in performing arts.
Read MoreAfroFuture Ghana 2025
Get ready for AfroFuture 2025, formerly Afrochella, bringing a week of vibrant celebration to Accra culminating December 28th to 29th. This premier cultural festival is your gateway to an extraordinary African experience. Dive into the heart of global Black culture with electrifying live performances, stunning art installations, and mouth-watering culinary delights.
Read MoreEven at 1%, new tax will burden African immigrants who send money back home
This part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” targets immigrants as a soure of revenue without a thought for the people who it will hurt.
Read MoreSilicon Valley African Film Festival
The Silicon Valley African Film Festival promotes an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images. Aptly themed “Africa through the African lens”, the film festival celebrates the vast richness of the African Continent through the lenses of Africa’s seasoned and emerging filmmakers and, crucially, provides audiences with exquisite lenses to the real Africa.
Read MoreDNA project hopes to reunite African Americans in Illinois with ancestral relatives in Africa
The project helps African descendants trace their roots back to Africa, something that was typically impossible before DNA testing.
Read MoreYale Art Gallery abandons plans for federal grants over anti-DEI rules, funds African exhibit itself
With Trump in office, the federal government is blocking funding or adding stipulations that bar DEI programs like this one at Yale’s museum.
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