Diaspora

Nurses from Africa are a vital part of the UK’s medical workforce. Cecilia Anim who migrated from Ghana to the UK in 1972 is one nurse who has made her mark in the UK’s National Health Service. Humans of Africa is celebrating her…

It was an unusual hijacking by a group of three men, two women and three young children. They were Black Panthers who commandeered a Delta airliner, flew across the Atlantic and the adults never set foot in the US again, four of them…

A pair of African-American cycling brothers have made history. Sitting on the hard shoulder on a searing hot day in California, Justin Williams was broken. Through a wobbly heat haze along the Pacific Coast Highway, he watched as…

The distinctive afro haircut. The evocative tramlined kit. It's easy to see why the iconic image of George Berry in a Welsh shirt comes to mind when asked to name the first black footballer to play for Wales. As far as many are…

"On my first day in my first banking job I was waiting in the reception area and was mistaken by the entire company for a security guard," says author and satirist Nels Abbey. "They all showed me their ID cards one by one as they came…