Today Verso Books is launching a new series, the Verso Palestine Pamphlets. The goal of the series is to publish short, urgent interventions answering pressing questions about Palestine. versobooks.com/en-gb/collecti…

From media to policy, the West has a long history of perpetuating racist stereotypes about Haitians, dating back to Haiti’s independence in 1804. ➡️Read more: liberationnews.org/from-media-to-…

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Les Américano-Haïtiens plus déterminés que jamais à faire une différence le 5 novembre. Les commentaires racistes de Donald Trump les ont mis en colère. Les électeurs d'origine haïtienne en Floride pourraient voter en bloc pour Kamala Harris. Sophie Langlois #TJ22H

Let me explain capitalism to you. A Haitian lives on a rich agricultural land w/ produce he can’t sell to earn a living. 🇺🇸 imports are cheaper & he can’t make $ to even buy those. He sells his land for cheap to go work under slave-like conditions on plantations in 🇩🇴. 1/ 🧵

TODAY: Cornell University student threatened with deportation for his participation in Palestine protests, Momodou ✊🏿, has been allowed to stay after a mass solidarity campaign pressured the school. BT Speaks with Momodou to reflect on his case and on student repression.

The Permanent Delegation of Haiti to UNESCO has announced the official inscription of Bois Caïman into the UNESCO Network of “Sites that Connect History and Memory of Slavery.” This recognition made official on October 9, 2024, marks the first Haitian site on this global list,

Some big-time double pleasure for CASBS fans here. Check out this podcast conversation featuring, among others, 2022-23 CASBS fellow Jean Beaman & current CASBS fellow Dr. Camilla A. Hawthorne 😏

As Haiti's Prime Minister, Garry Conille, & Kenya's President, William Ruto, held a briefing in Nairobi decrying financial constraints being faced by the Multinational Security Support, I caught up with Dr Jemima Pierre, @grosmorne29, a Haitian, for her perspective on the Kenya

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New from Gerald Horne: "Panthers, Communists, Black Nationalists, and Liberals in Southern California" (via AAIHS) aaihs.org/panthers-commu…

France must fall. All solidarity to Martinicians in achieving national liberation

JOIN US IN JOBURG NOVEMBER 1 for a @revolutionarypapers Project launch of a special issue on Anticolonial Periodicals of the Global South with @radicalhistoryreview and 13 part series on papers of the African left with Africa Is a Country hosted by the Wits History Workshop !!!!!

Thursday at NYU & on zoom! An Age of Black Revolution: New Directions, with Crystal Eddins & Vincent Brown, moderated by Monique Bedasse. Register here: csaad.nyu.edu/event/an-age-o…

As Laura Coates said, “I love being next to a brilliant woman.” My Africana Studies at Penn colleague Local D.C. park mom, now 45! gets to the heart of McDonalds politics: exploiting working people as props without supporting fair wages & labor protections.

Jean Beaman & OC discuss the connection b/w subfields of international #migration & race & ethnicity through a sociology of racialized #immigration, arguing the need for a global Blackness perspective on global migration. UC Santa Barbara UC Davis journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

As of yesterday, I have decided to resign from my role as a columnist for The Washington Post — a newspaper that I love. In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions. This is the reasonfor mine. 🧵

Puerto Rico nearly elected its first pro-independence governor. Candidate Juan Dalmau won 32% of the vote — a historic high reflecting Puerto Ricans’ growing support for independence from the U.S. BT’s Luis De Jesús 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇵🇸 reports