Three ongoing exhibitions showcasing work by Theaster Gates, Aliou Diack and Serge Mouangue highlight commonality between Japanese, African American and African aesthetics.

Were we are. Again. Another round of African leaders embarrassing us on the world stage as if we don’t have enough struggles ...

Ubochi Igbokwe used funding provided by the new Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program to study Igbo African masquerade music and the cultural impacts of the ...

There’s a growing wave of multiracial support for Black American reparations – with many Jewish and Japanese organizations among them.

Grant said about his experience in Japan: “Living in Japan, as an African American, I've honestly never felt more free.” He talked about how he can catch a cab without even trying, and that he ...

It's been 80 years since FDR signed Executive Order 9066 that put 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II.

TOKYO — As protests were spreading around the globe in response to George Floyd’s killing by the police, Sierra Todd, an African-American undergraduate in Japan, organized a march last month ...

Miyamoto, whose father is African-American, had to spend her first television experience apologizing to reporters because she does not “look Japanese.” ...

Ariana Miyamoto, the daughter of a Japanese mother and African-American father, has been named “ Miss Universe Japan.” ...

A Black American father has explained why he is glad he is raising his family in Japan rather than the US - and how different the reality of parenting there was from his expectations.