Browsing: Diaspora

Racists in Europe will often mask their hatred as patriotism, telling Black and Brown people to ‘leave’ and ‘go back’ to their ‘own countries.’ The level…

Why is it that America can run up huge debts and survive, but African countries cannot? Well, it’s simple. The US can print the greenback, while…

More than 640 Black mayors govern US cities, home to 48 million people. That comes to about 14 per cent of the US population. Yet, for…

Napoleon Bonaparte’s campaign against the Black Haitians, particularly under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture, was marked by racial brutality and imperial ambition. After the Haitian Revolution…

According to Dr Ruth Wilson Gilmore, capitalism requires inequality to function, and racism enshrines that inequality. Or, as the great Pan-Africanist Malcolm X put it, ‘You…

On this day in 1804, Haiti became the first modern-day Black republic in the world and the first nation to successfully abolish slavery through a revolution…

The June deployment of 400 Kenyan police officers to Haiti to further U.S interests in Haiti through occupation has gone awry. As of December, 20 officers,…

Michael Rapaport has struck again. In a self-filmed, expletives-ridden rant, the US actor thinks he’s proved to the world that there is no apartheid in Israel…

The British ruling class has often looked down on people of colour, especially if they are from impoverished inner-city neighbourhoods. So, when ‘Sean,’ who sounds like…

Mere years after presiding over the Nuremberg trials, Britain was unleashing the same horror on their colonies in Africa. During the struggle for independence in Kenya,…