Zohran Mamdani is making a longshot run for New York City mayor. His mother, Mira Nair, is an Oscar-nominated director.

Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call themselves simply African. To the extent that “African American” was ...

A Ugandan film about Archbishop Janani Luwum’s defiance of Idi Amin has won top honours at ...

Doomed to failure, Mamdani's plans for New York sound like they were written by the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. He and his wife and parents' blatant antisemitism adds evil to the general ...

“Janani: The Last Stand,” directed by Matt Bish, captured both Best Feature Film and Best Actor (East Africa) honors at the festival, which took place from June 25-29, 2025, in Stone Town, Zanzibar.

Mamdani is eight percentage points ahead of Cuomo with 95% of the first-place votes counted in the NYC Democratic mayoral ...

Zohran Mamdani is New York City’s presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee — but his mother’s Mississippi story came first.

The candidate who is likely going to win the mayoral race in New York City is also the son of a director who has earned an Oscar nomination.

Ruto's Kenya is quite redolent of Idi Amin's Uganda (1971-1979) where one voiced dissent on the pain of death, scholars and thinkers were muzzled into silence and fled abroad, and foreign-owned ...

Ruto's Kenya is quite redolent of Idi Amin's Uganda (1971-1979) where one voiced dissent on the pain of death, scholars and thinkers were muzzled into silence and fled abroad, and foreign-owned ...

US News: Explore how Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor, draws inspiration from his father's scholarship to challenge conventional politics and advocate for progressive change.

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