On February 25, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Many students from African and Caribbean nations were trapped in Ukraine, due to the suddenness of the invasion. Here, some Jamaicans share their accounts.
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June 12, 2021
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN CANADA
This week we’re in Canada taking a look at black Canadian history and culture! The first recorded African man in Canada was Mathieu da Costa who arrived in 1608 and acted as an interpreter for the French coloniser Samuel de Champlain. You’ve surely heard of Harriet Tubman! She was instrumental in helping enslaved Africans escape to freedom in Canada. And have you heard of Africville in Nova Scotia? For 150 years it was home to a sizeable Black Canadian population, until they were forcibly displaced as the settlement was condemned by the authorities and deconstructed. We speak about all this and so much more, in this video!
Music:
Assurance & Many Men by Ransom Beatz
Afro Boy by Thaibeats
Illustration by: Jimena Isabel Merchán. Find her on Instagram at: @jimenaimm
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February 25, 2021
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Along with Henrik Ibsen, Dumas was one of the originators of the “problem play,” a form of realistic drama that emerged in 19th-century Europe. Often featuring characters of the lower and middle classes, problem plays addressed a particular societal ill and proposed its remedy.
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February 13, 2021
Psychosis of Whiteness coming home to roost
We are right to condemn the scenes in the US capitol building, but they are a symptom of a problem that goes to the heart of what makes America, and the West, great.
Police (RH) Resources Hub Uncategorized
January 7, 2021
Jacob Blake: officers will not be charged in shooting that left Black man paralyzed
The officer who shot Jacob Blake 7 times in the back in front of his 3 children, will not face charges.
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December 17, 2020
LEWIS HAMILTON: GQ GAME CHANGER OF THE YEAR 2020
But it’s also his actions off the circuit that make him our Game Changer Of The Year, as he takes a knee and raises a fist for the global Black Lives Matter movement.
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December 12, 2020
MESSAGE TO THE GRASSROOTS: MALCOLM X, 1963
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy — the white man. He’s an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren’t enemies. Time will tell.
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October 29, 2020
End SARS protests: UK government admits it did train and supply equipment to Nigeria’s ‘brutal’ police unit
The minister for Africa James Duddridge admitted British officials had trained officers from the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) between 2016 and 2020 – having initially denied any ties.
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September 10, 2020
22.10.2020: The Kanneh-Mason Family in Concert, Live & Online
the Kanneh-Mason siblings are remarkable in so many ways. All gifted instrumentalists in their own rights, we relish the opportunity to hear them together live.
Encyclopaedia Africana H Uncategorized
August 10, 2020
Black People On Display: The Forgotten History of Human Zoos
We may not be in physical cages any more, but the othering, the racism, the rise of the far-right across Europe certainly makes me feel like a specimen, to be observed, tamed, controlled and expelled.