This is what they don’t want you to know
A new film on the life of Walter Rodney gives a glimpse of his radical solidarity politics and centers on his family, who struggled and suffered with him.
A new film on the life of Walter Rodney gives a glimpse of his radical solidarity politics and centers on his family, who struggled and suffered with him.
How socialist Cuba's foreign policy of solidarity with Africans, midwifed a new genre of music on the island.
Cuba achieved more for Afro-Cubans in 50 odd years than in the 400 years before that. However, socialism did not resolve the question of racism on the island.
On the 50th anniversary of Walter Rodney's The Groundings With My Brothers, a small group of scholars on the impacts of Rodney on their intellectual development and political commitments.
Thanks in part to the internet, Black women in Cuba are now able to forge space and create visibility for themselves.
In memory of J. Michael Dash, the Caribbean thinker and literature scholar.
A possible French victory hovers like a thin layer of hope that barely veils the simmering anger at France’s neglect of the islands and pessimism about the future.
The 21 April 1966 visit by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to Jamaica casts a big spell over the appeal of Ethiopia to Rasta and how Ethiopians perceive Rasta in turn.
Africa is a Radio show for October 2015. Sean and Elliot are on a break from
In New York City, Labor Day is associated with the West Indies Carnival. This enormous parade
The resistance legacy of Brazilian slaves suffers from both romanticism and a spotty historical record. But it also persists as a potent social and cultural symbol.
A virus transmitted by a mosquito bite could become misinformed panic in Latin America that Ebola was in the United States.
Annual review: Hipsters Don't Dance's "Top 10 African-Caribbean Collaborations" of 2014
The sound system, or Picó culture of the Caribbean coast of Colombia is very close to my
The strong local identity of Colombia's most African big city is slowly being erased. But not all its artists, especially musicians, are giving up without a fight.
The chance to place cricket fully in its poco setting – beyond its boundary – and to understand it as a form of political contestation.
Latin America and the Caribbean haven’t gotten enough attention on this site. We’re going to intentionally
The spontaneous mobilization of Afro-Colombians against mining corporations (backed by the Colombian state) is something to pay attention to.
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