AI on the JVM accelerates: New frameworks like Embabel, Koog, Spring AI, and LangChain4j drive rapid adoption of AI-native and AI-assisted development in Java. Java 25 anchors a modern baseline: The ...

New research documents the positive impacts that Afro-descendant populations have had on tropical ecosystems in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Suriname. The study found that deforestation rates are ...

With an Afro that is more than six feet in circumference, Jessica Martinez set a new Guinness record. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta Jessica Martinez was about 12 years old when she stopped using relaxers ...

Baltimore, MD — October 2025 — The AFRO-American Newspapers, known today as AFRO News, has earned national recognition on two Feedspot rankings — the “45 Best Black News Websites of 2025” and the ...

Born Bianca Miquela Landrau in Boston, Massachusetts, the 34-year-old rapper has been steadily building her career since appearing on Sisterhood of Hip Hop and signing with Pharrell’s label a decade ...

IZMIR — On one of the first warm days in September, members of the tiny Afro-Turk community gathered in the city center of Izmir, in western Turkey. Women in bright printed dresses wore regal headwear ...

YUNGAS, Bolivia (AP) — More than 11.3 million people live in Bolivia. Around 23,000 identified as Afro in a 2012 census, the first and only time they appeared as a distinct category. YUNGAS, Bolivia ...

The African American Film Critics Association and the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association are teaming up to spotlight Afro-Latino filmmakers with the return of the Afro-Latino Short Film ...

PAST ISSUES OF THE AFRO. SO WHEN YOU SEE 1947, IT’S FROM THE YEAR 1947. HISTORY FILLS THESE SHELVES, TELLING THE STORIES THAT BACK THEN WERE IGNORED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. WHEN YOU OPEN THIS UP, YOU ...

The Berkeley Student Cooperative’s Afro House is set to reopen this fall as a pilot graduate and reentry student co-op, following a yearlong closure prompted by low occupancy. The Berkeley Student ...

Stephanie Alcime prepared for her first birdwatching experience. The Portland resident wore comfortable hiking shoes and had a full water bottle when she arrived Saturday morning at the city’s Oaks ...

Territories owned and managed by Afro-descendant communities in Amazonian countries are under threat from miners, loggers and oil companies eager to exploit natural resources. Yet those territories ...