Stolen From Africa Media will be live on location bringing you the exclusives!! Canadian Music Week (CMW) is entering its 31st year of music conferences, shows, films and concert series. CMW has become one of the main music business events in North America, thanks to its extensive line up that ranges from songwriting to sound recording and digital media. Click here to check out the conferences, panels and speakers scheduled for...

“Mississippi has officially ratified the 13th amendment to the US constitution, which abolishes slavery and which was officially noted in the constitution on 6 December 1865. All 50 states have now ratified the amendment.” Tweet

REGGAE legend Bunny Wailer is not impressed by rapper Snoop Lion’s (formerly Snoop Dogg) recent conversion to Rastafari. Wailer is quoted by celebrity website tmz.com as accusing Snoop of engaging in “outright fraudulent use of (the) Rastafari community’s personalities and symbolism” — and has failed to meet “contractual, moral and verbal commitments” from Reincarnation, Snoop’s docu-mentary...

  Spike Lee doesn’t need my help to defend him, but he does deserve our gratitude and respect. I remember watching Pulp Fiction for the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, if not loved it. It is fair to characterize it as a classic piece of American cinema. But that doesn’t in any way mitigate the impact or excuse the “Dead N***** Storage” joke(s) in the film. They were unnecessary and wholly arbitrary...

Django Unchained action figures (blackyouthproject.com) Advocacy Groups, Writers Called Dolls Inappropriate “The controversial ‘Django Unchained’ action figures have officially been DISCONTINUED … after several African American groups called for a boycott of the dolls … TMZ has learned,” the TMZ website reported Friday. Later in the day, the Weinstein Co., the film’s producer, said in a...

West Africa’s main political bloc has called for more international support, as it prepares to join the French intervention in Mali. Paris has said that African troops must lead the fight against the Islamists. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held an emergency meeting in Ivory Coast on Saturday, to hammer out the final details of a planned African military intervention, which aims to oust Islamist militants...

  The Daily Beast: Academy Award-winner Quentin Tarantino is laughing all the way to the bank this week. The controversial film auteur and his longtime studio chief-partner Harvey Weinstein took a gamble on transforming the atrocities of American slavery into comedic, action-packed entertainment. And the new movie, Django Unchained, which opened Christmas day, bested the glitzy Les Miserables at the box office with numbers indicating...

US President Barack Obama is set to announce a $3bn (£1.9bn) plan to boost food security and farm productivity in Africa, US officials say. They say the initiative is aimed at alleviating shortages as world food supplies are being stretched by rising demand in Asia’s emerging markets. Food security is expected to be on the agenda of this weekend’s G-8 meeting. The summit near Washington is being dominated by Europe’s...

SFA exclusive footage! Wednesday May 9 2012- West Coast First Nations ‘Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Riders’ and community supporters gathered in front of the Enbridge’s annual general meeting of shareholders at the King Edward Hotel here in downtown Toronto,to send a clear message of disapproval for Enbridge’s plan to build pipelines and oil sands through out Sacred First Nations territory. Led by 11 year old...

Tools fashioned from stone and bone thousands of years ago, clay pipes crafted hundreds of years ago – these are some of the artifacts in a new exhibition opening at the University of Toronto. Uncovering Our Early Past: First Nations in Toronto opens May 11, 2012 in the Anthropology Building at 19 Russell Street. “For thousands of years, long before European newcomers arrived, the area we now call Toronto was home to the ancestors of...