October is upon us and if you have not already started planning what you will do on New Years eve in Johannesburg then we have the thing for you. AFROPUNK! If you don’t know what it entails here is a quick low down. For over 15 years, AFROPUNK has been defining culture in the music … Continue reading
We love this super informative geography class by Lilly Singh. Watch it here: Sourced from YouTube. Continue reading
To celebrate New York Fashion Week, Dulce Sloan broke down the problematic trend of designers appropriating African-American culture to sell clothes. Watch the video here: Sourced from Youtube. Continue reading
Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936. During her infant years her father, Columbus, was a local history teacher. In later years he was the minister of the Transkei Governments’ Forestry and Agriculture Department during Kaizer Matanzima’s rule. Her mother, Nomathamsanqa Mzaidume … Continue reading
Six black women currently hold the title of police chief in North Carolina, marking the first time this has happened in state history! In an interview with some of them they recounted how from the first day of police academy they quickly got a reality check that they would have to work twice as hard to … Continue reading
Perhaps you went to the moon this weekend and missed one of the most important trending tennis stories. If this was you then we are here to give you the highlights. Sloan Stephans, at just 24 and ranked 957th as of last month made a huge leap to first place by winning the US Open … Continue reading
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Watch a short biography video about Sojourner Truth, the abolitionist and former slave best known for her 1851 speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” … Continue reading
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya (Africa) in 1940. She was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Upon returning to Kenya, Maathai dropped her forename, preferring to be known by her birth name, Wangari Muta. When she arrived at the university to start her new job, she … Continue reading
We celebrated 44 years of Hip Hop last week. In celebration of this we have compiled a few of our fav female artists. Have a watch right here: Continue reading
You’ve seen the # floating around South African social media: Men are trash. What does it really mean and are we simply overreacting and stereotyping? In case you needed to be reminded, a 2016 report on Victims of Crime by Statistics SA‚ found that one in every four women faced violence from within their own homes … Continue reading
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