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Saint Lucia’s Ministry Of Equity Deepens Ties With Martinique-Based Donor Organizations
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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July 11, 2025
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – In an effort to continue strengthening regional partnerships in support of Saint Lucia’s social protection systems and disaster resilience efforts, officials of the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment...
Where to experience Black culture in Paris
National Geographic
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Creative Black minds and artisans have been present in Paris’s renowned art and food scene since the 1920s. American writers like Langston Hughes and James Baldwin found a home in the city’s bustling jazz cafes, and their future works have laid...
How Black culture has shaped Paris—and where to experience it
AOL
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Travelers searching for immersive Black or African cultural experiences in Paris can start with a stroll through Marché Dejean in the city’s La Goutte d’Or district, also known as Little Africa. Photograph by Michael Zumstein, Agence...
Former World Creole Music Festival Executive Director, Jeffrey Brisbane, remembered for his dedication to Creole culture and music
Dominica News Online
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July 6, 2025
Jeffrey Brisbane in Florida where resided. Facebook photo.Musical icon Gordon Henderson has paid tribute to Jeffrey Brisbane, a former Executive Director of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), who passed away on Saturday July 5, 2025, just one...
SJC Steel Pan Orchestra Performed in Martinique Festival
The Voice
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July 5, 2025
Sponsored | Article continues below . The St. Joseph’s Convent (SJC) Steel Pan Orchestra proudly represented Saint Lucia on the international stage at the renowned La Port des Arts Festival in Martinique last weekend. The prestigious event marked...
Why France keeps rioting
The Critic
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July 10, 2025
This article is taken from the July 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Riots are now a permanent feature of the Parisian lifestyle, just like train and metro...
The Radical Roots of Frantz Fanon’s Psychiatry
New Lines Magazine
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July 11, 2025
In January 1940, a mustachioed Catalonian anarcho-communist arrived at the door of the Saint-Alban psychiatric asylum in the mountains of southwestern France. The doctor wore round spectacles; his wild, curly hair grew out sideways from a...
'The Rebel’s Clinic': Frantz Fanon's legacy in a new era of colonial genocide
Middle East Eye
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July 11, 2025
Adam Shatz’s new book is a masterful tribute to one of the 20th century’s most influential anti-colonial thinkers. Written with intellectual richness and narrative verve, his biography of Frantz Fanon brims with historical depth and contemporary...
What Was Paul Gauguin Looking For?
The New Yorker
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July 11, 2025
In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in English in thirty years—he carried “a hundred meters of canvas, a large...
The Language Exchange Party Bonanza: A party to practice languages and make friends
The Independent Florida Alligator
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On July 3, around 15 people gathered at The Boxcar Wine & Beer Garden to practice languages, laugh at common mistakes and celebrate different cultures during the Language Exchange Party Bonanza, a free and open meetup for anyone, regardless of...
‘First ship’ nonprofit’s new director brings deep draft of maritime experience
Mainebiz - Oregon
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Maine’s First Ship, a Bath nonprofit that provides education and sailing programs using its reconstruction of the 1607 sailing ship Virginia, got a boatload of maritime education experience in the recent hire of its executive director. Alicia...
Dominica launches 25th World Creole Music Festival with star-studded lineup
Caribbean National Weekly
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July 8, 2025
Dominica is turning up the volume for the silver anniversary of its signature cultural event. The Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) has officially launched the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), set to take place from October...
Beauty in diversity: Promoting understanding at the Nishan Forum
CGTN
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The Nishan Forum on World Civilization is a premier platform for global dialogue, founded in 2010 to foster cultural exchange and mutual understanding between civilizations. Hosted annually in Qufu, Shandong, the birthplace of the great Chinese...
Jamaican creates aviation history
The Gleaner
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July 10, 2025
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICAN AVIATION executive, Damion Vanriel, who was born in Hartford, Westmoreland, but was raised in the tough Rose Heights community of Montego Bay, St James, has created history by becoming the first Jamaican to be named senior...
Dominica’s 25th world creole festival launched
St. Vincent Times
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July 7, 2025
The Ministry of Tourism and the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) have officially launched the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), unveiling a dynamic artist lineup and commemorative theme for the highly anticipated cultural...
Vybz Kartel to headline Dominica’s World Creole Music Festival
Antigua News Room
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July 7, 2025
The Ministry of Tourism and the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) have officially launched the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF), unveiling a dynamic artist lineup and commemorative theme for the highly anticipated cultural...
Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in...
Rana Mohip meets Narendra Modi: Binding two nations through song
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 9, 2025
Features Newsday 8 Hrs Ago India's Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi greets Rana Mohip while Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and Minister Barry Padarath look on. - BAVINA SOOKDEO THE lines from the devotional song Vaishnav Jan To, speak of a...
Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today...
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolutionary violence in return....
14 of the best villages in France - according to the French
The Local - France
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July 7, 2025
The results are out for the 2025 poll to find France's favourite village - from fortified hilltop settlements in wine country to quaint fishing villages and the birthplace of musketeer d'Artagnan, here are some of the country's hidden gems. Every...