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Missionary Jeneen Roscoe joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” Wednesday to discuss the realities of the Ebola virus and the fight to keep it from spreading. What…

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Civil rights icon, Ambassador Andrew Young joined Roland Martin Wednesday on “NewsOne Now” to share his wealth of knowledge on U.S.-Africa relations and his views…

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How can we advance  the issues of economics and fair trade between the United States and the African nations represented at this years leadership summit? Susan…

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President Barack Obama has gathered nearly 50 African heads of state in Washington for the 2014 US Africa Summit. Did you know that 6 out…

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On Monday, 500 participants of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders joined Pres. Barack Obama for a town hall meeting. The meeting caps off…

After President Barack Obama delivered his historic Africa address at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, NewsOne got the opportunity to speak with…

On Thursday, First Lady Michelle Obama and First Lady Mariame Faye Sall of Senegal encouraged young girls to excel in education at the Martin Luther…

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Comedian Michael Blackson jokes with the  crew about the heat in Ghana. being the King of African comedy, his history with J. Anthony Brown and…

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie (pictured) told an audience at TED, a conference of “ideas worth sharing” in technology, entertainment, and design made popular by its free video and discussion site, that knowing only a single story of a person or a place is destructive like the one-noted image we have of Africa – hunger, poverty, […]

African American mayors from across the country have traveled to Africa for the The 2011 World Summit of Mayors Leadership Conference in Dakar, Senegal. The summit will feature mayors from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The mayors will discus ways to build alliances and trade ideas. The Huffington Post reports: The goal: to build […]

Cameroonian photographer Mario Epanya has spent much of his free time shooting a fictional magazine. That’s right. Epanya went all out in his campaign to make “Vogue Africa” a reality. Vogue is currently published in 18 countries and one region, but Africa has never been selected to play home to the mag. In order to […]

juju (from the African Hausa language) – an object used as a fetish, a charm or an amulet in West Africa, or the supernatural power ascribed to such an object.