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Giving Josephine Baker a Hero’s Grave Won’t Bury the Truth… About France’s republican racism. By Gary Younge Younge-Josephine_Baker-ftr_img Dancer, spy, activist: In France, Baker found acceptance, fame, love—and a country for which she was prepared to risk her life. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images; insets: (top) Hulton Archive / Getty Images, (bottom) poster by Zig, photo by Swim Ink 2, LLC / Corbis via Getty Images) As a student in Paris in the fall of 1990, my lodgings were the envy of my peers—even if the means by which I came about them were not. While fellow language students from my university in Edinburgh were stuck in soulless suburbs, I was ensconced in Rue des Fossés Saint-Jacques, a short walk from the Jardin du Luxembourg and around the corner from the Panthéon. I had been lucky to find anywhere at all. Flat hunting in Paris is tough for anyone; being Black made it considerably tougher. People would ask about your “origins” when you called. If they didn’t, you’d t...

La bourgeoisie noire : une problématique du retour Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry ABSTRACT FRANÇAIS ENGLISH The black middle class now living in suburbs is being increasingly influenced by white culture. An analysis of its lies with the African-American church and kin System, however, shows that, while there is a degree of acculturation to dominant values, this group often retains or readopts many of its original practices. This study is based in part on interviews conducted in St Louis, Missouri between 1983 and 1987 and during the summer of 1992. FULL TEXT 1 D’après le recensement de 1990, 46,9 % de Noirs (67,6 % de Blancs) gagnent plus de 25 000 dollars (...) 1La configuration socio-économique mais aussi culturelle de la communauté africaine-américaine ces dix dernières années traduit la diversification, l’éclatement en deux pôles souvent opposés. Il existe aujourd’hui une bourgeoisie – au statut le plus souvent récent1 – excentrée vers les banlieues et on voit désormais des divergences...

international journal on human rights- Dec/2018 -MENUPOR - ENG - ESP search issue28 ESSAYS Essays AFRO-DESCENDANTS AS SUBJECTS OF RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Roberto Rojas Dávila The historical process of recognition and its challenges + ARTICLESLETTER TO THE READERS Sur 28 – Letter to the Readers ART Sea of Verses Rhuann Fernandes “Não me aguarde na retina” Diane Lima THE SUR FILE ON RACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Structural racism and the criminalisation of abortion in brazil Lívia Casseres The Massacre of Black Brazilians in the War on Drugs Nathália Oliveira, Eduardo Ribeiro Putting Racial Equality onto the Global Human Rights Agenda E. Tendayi Achiume The only Black woman at the social justice philanthropy dinner party Nicolette Naylor Racialising the debate on human rights Thula Pires Race Matters Mariana Berbec-Rostas, Soheila Comninos, Mary Miller Flowers, Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, Michael Heflin, Nina Madsen Black Women Under Fire Juliana Borges The role of white...

En República Dominicana una canción en creole lleva el mensaje de prevención más allá de las fronteras 29 mayo 2020 Xiomara Fortuna creó la canción para la prevención del COVID-19 Leyenda: La cantante Xiomara Fortuna quiere que su música inyecte optimismo y suba las defensas de quien la escuche Foto: © Cortesía GlobalizateRadio.com La canción de prevención del COVID-19 creada por Xiomara Fortuna se puede disfrutar en español y en creole y es un mensaje conjunto de la OIM, ACNUR y el INM Santo Domingo. En estos días una pegajosa canción afrocaribeña se comparte por las redes y suena en los celulares en República Dominicana. “Sácale los pies… al Coronavirus, súbele los vidrios… al Coronavirus…” dos expresiones populares dominicanas se convirtieron en el coro de una canción que ahora se disfruta en español y en creole. “Con la sensibilidad de todo lo que está pasando, un día entré a mi estudio, tomé mi tambor y me puse como siempre a tocar una plena (género musical) y me salió es...

How did Belgian French develop different number words from French spoken in France? Once upon a time, French was not a language, but an entire language family — the “languages of oïl”. Because they had in common their word for “yes”… From “oïl”, pronounced /oh-weel/, came “oui”, prounouced /wee/. (The duration of ‘ee’ is short, though.) A narrow language family it was, yet still: The different ‘dialects’ could hardly understand each other: They differed in their different mixtures of Latin/Roman, Celtic/Gallic, and Germanic. Also: different phonological evolutions didn’t happen the same everywhere. You can see some remnants of that in English. By far the biggest infusion of French words happened in the centuries after the Norman conquest of 1066, when England was ruled by the Anglo-Normans (who brought along their Norman French dialect). So that’s why “excellence” (an old borrowing) is pronounced differently from “par excellence” = /par excellãs/ (adopted much more recently). Somet...

'I'm leaving, and I'm just not coming back': Fed up with racism, Black Americans head overseas KIM HJELMGAARD | USA TODAY Show Caption Anthony Baggette knew the precise moment he had to get out: He was driving by a convenience store in Cincinnati when a police officer pulled him over. There had been a robbery. He fit the description given by the store's clerk: a Black man. Okunini Ọbádélé Kambon knew: He was arrested in Chicago and accused by police of concealing a loaded gun under a seat in his car. He did have a gun, but it was not loaded. He used it in his role teaching at an outdoor skills camp for inner-city kids. Kambon had a license. The gun was kept safely in the car's trunk. Tiffanie Drayton knew: Her family kept getting priced out of gentrifying neighborhoods in New Jersey. She said they were destined to be forever displaced in the USA. Then Trayvon Martin was shot and killed after buying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Tamir Rice wo...

Black Europeans of African ancestry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Black Europeans Total population ~12,500,000 (2020 est.) Religion Christianity, Islam[1] Related ethnic groups African diaspora Summer Carnival in Rotterdam Black Europeans of Africans ancestry, or Afro-Europeans, refers to people in Europe who trace full or partial ancestry to Sub Saharan Africa. Contents 1 European Union 2 The rest of Europe 3 Notable Afro-Europeans 4 See also 5 References 5.1 Sources European Union[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In the European Union as of 2019, there is a record of approximately 9.6 million people of Sub Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean descent, comprising around 2% of the total population, with over half located in France. The countries with the large...