Ministers don’t appear to understand what racial discrimination is, argues the Runnymede Trust.
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These 9 Films Prove Caribbean Cinema Is On the Rise | OkayAfrica
A recap of nine standout films hailing from the Caribbean featured at this year’s Pan-African Film Festival.
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Celebrating Bermuda: The Legacy of James ‘Jemmy’ Darrell | Bermuda Biographies
A slave for most of his life, James Darrell was granted his freedom at the age of 47 because of his outstanding skills as a pilot. He was one of Bermuda’s first King’s pilots, as well as the first known black person to purchase a house.
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In Haiti, Tracing a Paradise Lost | The New York Times
The U.N. says the country is now stable, and tourism is growing. But the former vacation paradise still has a faded beauty.
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Death of Jamaican Fast-Food Magnate Stuns Friends and Workers | The New York Times
“Our hearts are broken, and we are struggling to process our grief over this tremendous loss,” the Golden Krust company said in a statement on Sunday. “Lowell was a visionary, entrepreneur, community champion, and above all a committed father, family man, friend and man of faith.”
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The night Barbuda died: how Hurricane Irma created a Caribbean ghost town | The Guardian
Two and a half months after Barbuda was battered by 185mph winds, the island remains ruined and largely uninhabitated. Now locals are questioning if people will ever return
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The Caribbean is being killed: Time to fight back | San Francisco Bay View
A while back, people might have argued that this was a statement of journalistic exaggeration, a way to grab the reader’s attention by fear mongering, but today it is an unfortunate statement of fact when one looks around the region.
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The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations | Salon
A French physician working in Cayenne, envied the “numerous plant cures” known to “Indians and Negroes.”
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This Entrepreneur Has Launched the First Digital Accelerator In the Caribbean – Atlanta Black Star
No one ever got anywhere by taking the easy road, and that’s what led Haitian-American tech entrepreneur Christine Souffrant Ntim to achieve mountains of success.
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ISIS in the Caribbean
Trinidad has the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. How did this happen?
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