IShowSpeed, a 21-year-old African American influencer, has raced a cheetah, leapt with Maasai warriors and drawn huge crowds in a month-long tour of Africa that has also busted cliches about the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta yearning for a life in a place where his dark skin color is not a source of suspicion, but a mark of a shared heritage. His ...

My first time on the continent of Africa was during the Ajabu Cocktail Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2024. The experience proved transformative. As an Afro-Caribbean girl raised in the ...

As diaspora curiosity about living and working in Africa grows, these entrepreneurs share what it actually takes to build a business on the continent.

Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee will work to unite the diaspora as Benin ambassadors to African Americans in the U.S. Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee will be bridging gaps between West Africa and the ...

With the rise of DNA tests, ancestral travel has been growing in recent years. That is especially true for African Americans, who for most of our history could not trace our lineage but can now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenneth Harris, a 38-year-old retired veteran, lifts weights at a gym in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew ...