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Refugee protection is less about vulnerability and more about oppression. This is at least what I have long believed, having worked in the field for more than 15 years. When we speak of refugees, we often speak of their vulnerabilities and the responsibility to safeguard their rights. There is truth in that, but in real […]
Working in international aid, Stephanie Kimou was often the only African on staff at white-led institutionsPhoto illustration. Image source: caracterdesign/Getty Images
Bernard Powers, professor emeritus of history and director of the College of Charleston’s Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, has published an article in The Conversation reflecting on the significance of the recent opening of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Powers writes that the museum . . .
At International Publishers’ 100th anniversary symposium in New York in October, Dr. Gerald Horne announced a research prize for the best new manuscript submitted to International that reflects the links between Indigenous dispossession and slavery/Jim Crow. The Jerry and Flora Horne Scholarship will award $1,000 to the winning applicant. Horne—known for such books as
Every place in the world has a “special dish.” And now, two black businesswomen in Bismarck are exposing North Dakotan taste buds to cuisines from across the world. “It feels great — it really feels good to know that I can bring that diversity to the business field,” said Mellisa Phillips-adi, owner of Jamrock. Jamaica […]
FILE – The original Emancipation Proclamation is shown on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, Feb. 18, 2005. The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, when many Black Americans gathered in churches and other venues, waiting for President Abraham Lincoln to sign […]
Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot (March 24, 1802) by Auguste Raffet The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Enslaved people initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. […]
Whatever the wider debates, here in Quebec, “Slav” has polarized the cultural establishment. Lucas Charlie Rose, 26, a French Montreal-based transgender rapper who organized the protest, accused the production of turning slave music into “soulless rock songs.” Among his litany of complaints was that Ms. Bonifassi, a white woman, played Harriet Tubman, a Moses among […]