Argentina created a mythology of national whiteness that pretended the country’s Black population had long ago gone extinct, and ignored the presence of indigenous people. But young African-descended Argentinians are fighting “for their visibility” in the nation narrative and history, said Dr Erika Edwards, professor of Colonial Latin American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of the book, “Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Public. The Black movement, said Edwards, is “saying that, not only have we not just arrived” in the country, “we have always been here.”
Textbooks are a battleground in which the humanity and status of black Americans are contested
Amazon will not stop squeezing every drop from workers until those workers have more power.
The Swazi military has reportedly warned the population to “obey instructions” or “face full wraith of troops.”
Farmers of color received less than one percent of the payments even though they are five percent of all U.S. farmers.
“We must deepen the resistance to police terror and all attempts to protect a status quo of colonial domination of our people,” the 17 organizations of the coalition declared.
