Africa
TAYO Fatunla’s SOUTH AFRICA Diary – Vilakazi Street Where Two Nobel Peace Prize Winners Advanced Their Fight Against Apartheid
*More from South Africa as I visited Soweto about 25 minutes by road from Johannesburg. I remembered Nigerian musician, Sonny Okosuns' liberation songs such...
LGBTIQA+
Uganda’s President Signs One of the World’s Harshest Anti-LGBTQ Bills Into Law – US ‘Deeply Troubled’ | VIDEO
*(CNN) — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world, the speaker of parliament said, defying international...
Africa
Bola Tinubu – NIGERIA’s New President – Nigerians Expect A Lot
*The shambolic Naira currency debacle before Nigeria's 2023 Presidential election last February, the political and tribal rifts almost destabilized Nigeria. At 71, Hercules, he...
Top News
Black Owner of Jamaican Cottage Business Bans ‘Entitled, Unappreciative’ Black Americans (Video)
*The Black owner of a Jamaican cottage business says she will no longer allow Black Americans as guests because they feel entitled and always...
Africa
OUR ROOTS Remembers Tina Turner and So Does the World
*When news broke that she had passed at 83, I went through my OUR ROOTS collection to retrieve another of the black and white...
Africa
Harry Belafonte – OUR ROOTS Documenting His Story and the Time He Met Cartoonist Zapiro in South Africa
*News recently broke out that the singer and actor who smashed racial barriers in the US, Harry Belafonte, had died. This was a day...
Social Heat
Trailer for ‘The Color Purple’ Got the Internet Hyped – Kandi Burruss is Living it Up For Her Bday & More | PicsVideos
*Social Heat is so wavy this afternoon. 'The Color Purple' movie trailer drops and stars Fantasia, Halle Bailey, Taraji P. Henson, Ciara, Danielle Brooks,...
Social Heat
Tabitha Brown Made A Falcon Fly Away in Dubai – Social Influencer Causes Diaspora Cookout War & More | Videos
*Webbies, we going to make Social Heat do what it do. Check out the first story. Social media influencer, actress, and entrepreneur Tabitha Brown...
Africa
Nigerian Chef (Hilda Effiong Bassey) Cooks for 100 Hours in World Record Attempt | WATCH
*(CNN) — Nigerian chef Hilda Effiong Bassey has become a national sensation after cooking nonstop for 100 hours, in an attempt to set a...
Top News
Drake Highlights Dad’s Nigerian Roots from Ancestry.com: ‘Does This Mean I’m a Naija Man Finally?’
*Drake appears excited to learn the results of an ancestry test that reveals he has Nigerian roots.
On May 8, the rapper posted an image...
Social Heat
Social Media Erupts Over Anita Baker N’ Dem Preventing Babyface’s Performance – Coco Jones Killed Nat’l Anthem & More | PicsVideos
*Ayo Webbies, as we wind down this week, one would think things would be simmering down on Cardi B's internet, but nah, check out...
Social Heat
Pras Found GUILTY on 10 Criminal Counts – Nick Cannon Says Ex-Mariah Carey May Have Fumbled Him + Lots More | PicVideos
*Webbies, it's hump day and things are real out here in these streets for Social Heat. Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, a member of the hip...
Mass Shootings
10 Members of Same Family Killed in South Africa Mass Shooting | VIDEO
*(CNN) -- Sound familar? Ten members from the same family, including seven women and three men, were killed by gunmen Friday in the city...
Africa
TAYO Fatunla’s Our Roots: Eid Al-Fitr Celebration and Islam in Africa
*It's Eid Al-Fitr this weekend long when Muslims all around the world celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Eid Al Fitr...
Africa
Dr. Bruce Onobrakpeya – Nigerian Artist Extra-ordinaire: The Mask and the Cross Showcased in Atlanta
*The Mask and the Cross exhibition describes the artist’s creative phase from 1967 through 1978, during which he created numerous works marrying Nigerian tradition,...
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