Browsing: Diaspora

US Senator Marco Rubio has targeted Cuba’s long-standing medical internationalism program, imposing visa restrictions on Cuban officials based on allegations of forced labour. The US government…

Did the United States erase the original message of the Statue of Liberty? According to research done by Joy DeGruy (@dr.joydegruy on Instagram, @drjoydegruy on X)…

In the 1930s, during the Great Depression in the United States, the federal government could no longer ignore the lack of affordable housing. Thus began the…

Racism isn’t just offensive – its a weapon that has been used to colonize, exploit and suppress Black people for centuries. @BlackFactsMatter, a TikTok creator, highlighted…

In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark (1914-2005) and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-83), designed the ‘Doll Study’ to measure the psychological effects of US…

Anti-Haitian discrimination in the US has a long history, rooted in events that date back to the Haitian Revolution of 1804. After Haiti became the first…

Police say a white 67-year-old Louisiana resident named Michael Neu managed to con people out of thousands of dollars by posing as the beneficiary of a…

Today, on International Women’s Day, we remember the remarkable Harriet Tubman. Born 203 years ago (also in March), she was an abolitionist and suffragist who earned…

Grenada’s prime minister has urged the EU to make amends for the European slave trade – by apologising and paying reparations. The issue of what would…

Sixty years ago today, a pivotal moment unfolded in Selma, Alabama, when police assaulted a group of more than 600 determined protesters advocating for Black voting…