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

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 ...

Call Me By Your Name is a visual feast of a coming-of-age romantic drama based on the 2007 André Aciman novel of the same ...

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.

Nair is best known for "Mississippi Masala," a cross-cultural romance movie that starred Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury. The film, released in 1991, explored the expulsion of the Indian ...

In the 1970s, Amin enlisted Black Ugandans to battle against racial minorities who were said to dominate the economy and public life. Today an ascendant right wing encourages aggrieved white Americans ...