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Speaking to Students at the Morgan State University's Global School of Journalism & Communications in Balitmore, MA
Baltimore, MA. In February 2018 I had the great opportunity to speak to the students of Morgan State University´s School…

Screening of "And we were Germans" by th US Helsinki Commission in the Halls of Congress in Washington D.C.
Washington, DC. February 20th, 2018. The US Helsinki Commission had invited me to screen my documentary on Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi and…

A black german survivor of the Holocaust & Barack Obama
When Barack Obama visits the German concentration camp at Buchenwald this Friday, he might meet prisoner no. 40489 – one…
We are President!
In Germany black people are also celebrating „their“ president-elect. But what does Obama’s triumph mean for Black Germans? Here are…
Black. And German.
by Jeannine Kantara It happened again the other day. „You have lovely hair! Mind if I touch it…?“ The hand…
Barack Obama in the German Media
by Jeannine Kantara Last summer an American friend and journalist came to visit us in Berlin. I asked him whether…

An afternoon among friends: A visit to Muhammad Ali at his ranch in Berrien Springs, Michigan 1999
by Jeannine & John A. Kantara Pic soon to come … You do not keep a man like Muhammad Ali…

No Go Germany
No Go Germany John A. Kantara, a Black German from Berlin, writes about his country Why is it so difficult…
The Avengers
World War II was over, Dov Shenkal and his friends had only one goal: Retaliation for the mass murder of…