How Black Lives Matter Went Global – Susie Armitage / Buzz Feed
2016 was the year Black Lives Matter went truly global. The US-born movement has spread as far as Brazil, South Africa, and Australia, where activists…
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Lessons From Down-Under : Living With Racism in Australia – Alice Pung / NYT
MELBOURNE, Australia — My father survived the killing fields of Cambodia, where he was threatened with having his tongue cut out with a sickle for…
Extremists Turn to a Leader to Protect Western ( White Nationalism) Values: Vladimir Putin – Alan Feuer and Andrew Higgins / NYT
Watch humans go from a tiny group in Africa to 7 billion around the world, in 5 minutes – German Lopez / Vox
Black America and the Passing of Fidel Castro – Bill Fletcher, Jr. / Alternet
More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US – Randeep Ramesh / The Guardian
I see light in the darkness – a backlash against bigotry is under way – Natalie Nougayrede / The Guardian
The Dutch are slowly recognizing that their blackface tradition of Zwarte Piet is racist and weird – Ishaan Tharoor / Wash Post
For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race – Lulu Garcia-Navarro / NPR
How Apartheid Haunts a New Generation of South Africans – Kenichi Serino / The Atlantic
Historic Event in London Honors ‘International Slavery Remembrance Day’ – Lilly Workneh / Huff Post
Black Brazilians And Americans In Rio Made The Fight For Their Lives A Global One – Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress
Black Lives Matter in France, Too – The Editorial Board / NYT
Why Black Lives Matter is going global – Sher Watts Spooner / Daily Kos
Through the Brexit Looking Glass: Britain Wakes Up to a New Wave of Racism – Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
The Many Africas : Beyond Continental Caricatures – Ian H. Solomon / Foreign Affairs
Former Australian PM warns US on gun control – Bernie Lo and Nyshka Chandran / CNBC
National Anti-Racism Strategy and Racism. It Stops with Me Campaign / Australian Human Rights Commission
China and India have a huge problem with racism toward black people – Ishaan Tharoor / Wash Post
Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism Between Two Fires – Sujatha Fernandes / The Nation
America’s Cult of Ignorance Is No Match for Asia’s Cult of Intelligence – John W. Traphagan / The World Post
Has South Africa Lost Its Way? The ANC’s Unfulfilled Promise – Jessica Piombo and Cherrel Africa / Foreign Affairs
South Africa is in the middle of a period of political and economic unrest unlike anything the country has experienced since the end of apartheid…
We didn’t need to drop the bomb — and even our WW II military icons knew it – Gar Alperovitz / Salon
Afro-Mexicans: No longer ‘erased’ – Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
After Violent Attack, India Must Address Anti-Black Racism – Sharmila Sen / The Root
Afrophobia in Europe: Groundbreaking ENAR report – Mary Schlichte / OBV
Watch “Strolling,” a Powerful Web Series About the African Diaspora – Alexis Okewo / The New Yorker
