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Unrest in Haiti as President Rejects Call to Step Down, Arrests Opponents for Alleged Coup Attempt
Political unrest in Haiti resulted in the arrest of more than 20 people in the nation’s Port-Au-Prince capital over the weekend, as President Jovenel Moise continues to deny requests from opposition leaders and members of the public to step down from office. Moise’s opponents say that his presidential term should have ended on Sunday, February…
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Megan Thee Stallion Is Letting Y’all Know That She Is, Indeed, That ‘B.I.T.C.H.’ With a New Single
Megan Thee Stallion, a.k.a Ms. My Knees Don’t Quit (I made that up. It was either going to be that or “Twerkocalypse Now,”) has just gifted the world with a new track produced by none other than the legendary duo The Neptunes. In her new song “B.I.T.C.H”—which Megan teased last week via Instagram in a poolside…
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Jamaican Beauty Toni-Ann Singh Crowned Miss World, Encourages Girls to Believe In Themselves
Black women across the world are being recognized as the royalty they are. On Saturday, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh was crowned as Miss World 2019 in London. The St. Thomas native’s crowning achievement joins a historic group of black women—2019 Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, 2019 Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris, 2019 Miss America Nia Franklin, and…
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Legacy of Slavery Still Monumental
(The Root) — Last month, representatives from member states of CARICOM (the Caribbean Community and Common Market) and half a dozen other nations gathered in tiny St. Vincent and the Grenadines to discuss an idea regarded by some in the United States as radical, fringe, even nuts: reparations for “native genocide and slavery.” Such a…
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She's Fighting Female Circumcision
(The Root) — To hear 22-year-old Nice Nailantei Leng’ete answer questions from across a table, you have to lean in. She’s that quiet. When she’s chronicling her globally praised work to end female genital mutilation among Kenya’s Masai people, she chooses her words deliberately. (Just one example: She prefers the lesser-used phrase “female genital cutting”…
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Say It Loud, I'm Coloured and I'm Proud
Editor’s note: The spelling of the ethnic term “Coloured,” used within the context of South African history and culture, reflects the writer’s preference. (The Root) — I know what you’re probably thinking, and to be honest, I don’t blame you. You probably took one look at the title of this piece and thought to yourself,…
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In Kenya, a Legacy of Resilience
(The Root) — For many of Kenya’s well-off, Saturdays are for shopping, drinking lattes, nibbling on international fare like sushi and Greek frozen yogurt and window-shopping in Nairobi’s upscale malls. There’s the Sarit Center, the Village Market and the perhaps the glitziest of them all, the Westgate Mall, where the car park is often filled…
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Amid Strife, Congo's Musicians Fight to Play
(The Root) — Jean Claude “J.C.” Wenga, 24, expected to spend the last weekend of August performing in front of thousands of people from across Africa’s Great Lakes region at a historic music festival in his hometown of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Indeed, the week…