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Feminist, Activist, former Young Lords Party and Black Panther Party member, applied cultural anthropologist Follow @Deoliver47
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While most U.S. media has its international news attention trained on events taking place in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana is making Caribbean and South American headlines. I doubt that most Americans would...
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On Dec.�4,�the sound of drumming�and singing will fill the air�across the Caribbean and Latin America, and in neighborhoods here in the States where there are practitioners of African diasporic ...
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Pablo “Yoruba”�Guzman, born Paul Guzman on�Aug.�17, 1950, in New York City, to�Puerto Rican and Cuban parents, joined the ancestors on Nov.�26, 2023, after suffering a heart attack. The sad news ...
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On Nov. 26, 1939, Anna Mae Bullock was born in Nutbush, Tennessee to a factory worker mom and a Baptist deacon dad. Nutbush, at the time, had a population of 239. From these humble beginnings, Anna ...
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Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States (though many Native Americans have a very different perspective on its history ). It is decidedly not a part of Caribbean history. Lest we ...
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As I write this (days before you read it), I’m already in prep mode for my annual Thanksgiving gathering. I don’t know what’s on your holiday menu, but mine�never changes. I cook the same meal ...
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