Monday, 24 August 2015

REVIEW: INDIAN FILM 'UMRIKA' LOOKS BEHIND MIGRATION

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By Dimitri Keramitas Prashant Nair’s Umrika comes at a critical moment of migration crisis in Europe, where thousands of refugees ...
Thursday, 9 July 2015

JAMAICA’S MOUNTAINS NOW ON WORLD HERITAGE LIST

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Jamaica’s Blue and John Crow Mountains - which provided refuge for the island’s indigenous people and later for Africans fleeing slavery - ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015

SCHOLARS FOCUS ON ACTIVISM AT LIVERPOOL MEETING

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“When you have a platform to speak out against oppression, and to speak for your people, you have to embrace it,” says Kashif Powell, a poe...
Thursday, 11 June 2015

CAPE VERDE’S NEWEST STAR SENDS A MESSAGE TO TEENS

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Singer Elida Almeida. (Photo: Brian Cook / Golden Sky Media) PRAIA / PARIS - Elida Almeida is Cape Verde’s newest star, with thousand...
Thursday, 4 June 2015

COLOMBIAN FILM LOOKS AT CHILDHOOD AND CONFLICT

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By Dimitri Keramitas Among the films selected for France’s influential Cannes Film Festival were several from Latin America, and one re...
Friday, 29 May 2015

IN FRANCE, THE COMMEMORATION OF SLAVE ANCESTORS

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By Brenda F. Berrian It is a cool afternoon at the Place de la République in Paris, and, clad in black, several people of Caribbean des...
Monday, 25 May 2015

FILM ABOUT MIGRANTS IN PARIS WINS CANNES' TOP PRIZE

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The 2015 Cannes Film Festival awarded its top prize to a film about a trio of immigrants from Sri Lanka trying to adapt to a tough urban en...