by News Headlines | May 25, 2022 | Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
By Sania FarooquiNEW DELHI, India, May 23 2022 (IPS) The year 2019 was not just a time before the world saw the global pandemic, but also a time when the world saw mass political uprisings with women at the forefront. The MENA region in a way led this force, in Sudan...
by News Headlines | May 25, 2022 | Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
Mayra Fernanda Mejía, a black single mother and rural activist, never really felt that Colombia’s politicians cared about people like her – until now. She has been threatened with violence for speaking out against the armed groups that plague her community, and each...
by News Headlines | May 25, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
In Pierre Rosanvallon’s new book, Society of Equals, Santo Domingo (as the French colony is named by the translator) is mentioned on page 16, alongside the United States and France, as one of the fundamental sites of the new spirit of equality that animated the...
by News Headlines | May 25, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
In 1896 when the city of Miami was established, historians say that there were 367 people who voted to officially make it a city. Of that number, 162 were Black residents. And the first name on the charter of the city was that of a Black man called Silas Austin. In...
by News Headlines | May 25, 2022 | Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
“We have two more bunches,” I shouted so that my younger sister, who was in the other room, could hear me as I carried two hands of fresh green bananas (locally known as matooke) from the front door to the kitchen. It was the second time that week that we had received...
by News Headlines | May 25, 2022 | Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
Heavy rains in South Africa have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes on the east coast, according to officials, only a month after the worst floods in living memory killed more than 400. The floods over the weekend hit infrastructure, roads, bridges and...
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