The people and moments building KFF's future.
Weekly dispatches from Roots & Futures, Tuesdays with Junior, and the scholars, partners, and programs carrying KFF's four pillars forward.
From Charity to Capital: The Shift the Continent Needs
Boris Kodjoe has spent three years standing in the same room at the Milken Institute's Global Conference, alongside investors, fund…
What I Walked Into That Room Knowing
Nicole Ari Parker has heard no before. Years on stage and screen taught her how to take a rejection and…
Dispatches from Ghana: What It Actually Took to Get Her Journey Home There
Her Journey Home was supposed to start with a bus ride to the airport. It started with a bus breaking…
67 Minutes: What Mandela’s Legacy Actually Demands of Us
27 years in a cell. He walked out and built a democracy instead of burning one down. That’s not restraint.…
That Double Consciousness Left My Body. I Feel So Light When I’m Here.
My son was six years old when he put it into words. We were in Ghana, and he said it…
Descendants of Royalty, Not Slaves.
A lot of African-Americans experience it for the first time when they set foot on the continent: a true sense…
The Diaspora Isn’t Displaced. It’s Distributed.
The diaspora is the third biggest country in the world after China and India. 600 million people. Boris put it…
Africa Has the Best ROI on Earth. That’s Not Charity. That’s Data.
The average return on foreign direct investment in Africa is 11.4%. The global average is 7%. Boris said it plainly:…
July: The Architects of Diaspora
We were taught the scattering was the tragedy: that to be spread across continents was to be cut from the…
This Month: Graduation and the Return Home
Tuesdays with Junior | Monthly Recap | June 2026 June is the month Junior's story turned. Everything before it was…
From Consumer to Owner: The Mindset Shift Boris Kodjoe Says Changes Everything
Nobody told me the door was open. That’s how Boris Kodjoe describes it. Not a moment of revelation, not a…
The Relay Never Stopped Running
January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed. June 19, 1865. Texas heard about it. Two years. Six months. Nineteen…