Haiti’s Children Pay the Price of Poverty
“After 200 years of bees, let’s have 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government ...
British Virgin Islands – “We The Black Suffering
A 45-minute flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, the sunny Brit- ish Virgin Islands, some 60 in all, are viewed ...
The Long Night of Slavery
BETWEEN 1518 AND 1873, IN THE LARGEST CO- erced migration in history, the international trade in human beings carried nearly ...
Maroons of the Caribbean
RESISTANCE WAS AN INTEGRAL PART OF Caribbean slave society. Slaves resisted in myriad ways-from the subtle and passive, acted out ...
A PRECOLUMBIAN DIASPORA
THE AFRICANDIASPORA DID NOT, AS SO MANY suppose, originate in the New World; it began in North Africa, the Creum-Mediterranean, ...
Brazil’s Black Conciousness Movement
This piece was published in the February 1992 issue of the NACLA Report. ON MAY 11, 1988, TWO DAYS BEFORE ...