This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

When Ramey Dawoud looks back on his childhood days in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, he recalls hearing the adults around him speak in their native language: Nubian. Yet with him they’d ...

The newest term in town blazing hot and wild is from the one time hit makers from DC Nubian Stunners called ‘PUMPAPA’ but unfortunately the meaning of the term is being misunderstood as ‘ass’. In an ...