Harlem, once known around the world as the Black capital of the world, may soon lose its identity to a huge wave of gentrification. more>

Although Liberia’s lengthy period of national torment is coming to an end with the restoration of a democratically elected civilian government, Freshman Republican Congressman Tim Walberg of Michigan, a sponsor of the bipartisan measure, believes there is still a need to open up new opportunities for distressed expatriates. more>

Six months before his term was up for re-election, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously re-elected Mr. Kofi Annan, secretary of the organization. Most United Nations watchers attributed the secretary general's quick re-election and unprecedented unanimity to [Annan’s] not ruffling any of their feathers in the four-and-a-half years he had been in the office. But Annan’s opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq rubbed many the wrong way and elicited a spate of negative press about him and his son, all calling for his ouster. more>

Only ten years after the Rwandan genocide, history threatens to repeat itself in the little known region of Darfur in Western Sudan. Since early 2003, government-supported militia known as the janjawid have raped, killed and pillaged, leaving villages devastated and thousands dead in their wake. Since it’s an oil-poor region, the catastrophe has drawn little international support. more>

I am deeply saddened that the African media is not receiving the kind of attention that our people pay to other newspapers or magazines. For them it is a status symbol to be seen reading, or rather really carrying, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time or Newsweek magazine. more>

Governor Pataki of New York has been urged by the African community to appoint an independent investigator to investigate the shooting of an unarmed African immigrant by a New York police officer. more>

The man who helped Jewish holocaust survivors receive $1.25 billion is at it again: this time on behalf of victims of the South African racist apartheid regime. Ed Fagan, the controversial lawyer, says he is fighting to secure billions of dollars for South African blacks. The case is now before a New York court. more>

The diplomatic community in New York is ashamed by what is happening at the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations. For the past five weeks, diplomats and other U.N. officials trying to reach the mission have been told by the phone company that the phone is disconnected. more>

The events at the end of 2002 in Africa made me very proud to be an African. We achieved what America has yet to achieve, a free and fair election. The Kenyan elections are not the only good news, either. more>

The West severely criticized President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe for wresting back control of arable lands in the country from the very small minority of whites who control them, so as to redistribute them to Africans. Namibia, another African country with almost the same history as Zimbabwe, has exactly the same land problem. MORE. more>