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Steven Miller "We are talking about children, we are talking about families, we are talking about suffering." — Vice President Kamala Harris at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021.The policy was as simple as it was cruel. As part of a "zero tolerance" immigration strategy, the Trump administration systematically separated migrant children—including infants and toddlers—from their …
Walk through the streets of Salvador, Brazil, and you'll hear the drums of Candomblé echoing from centuries-old terreiros. You'll see women in white lace selling acarajé, a fried bean cake brought to South America by enslaved West African women. You'll notice that the vast majority of faces around you are Black. Now walk through Buenos …
‘Biafra is a dream that haunts me – it was a dream that was on the cusp of being realised and yet failed so painfully,’ recalls Ije Ajibade, telling the story of injustice that has shaped her life 1 day ago My earliest memories of Biafra are the same as my earliest memories of my father. I can …
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If you could have something named after you, what would it be? One does not have the Trumpian urge to plaster one’s name on buildings and allied products. Happily one isn’t a narcissistic moron.
The July 29, 1966, counter-coup in Nigeria was not merely a change of government; it was a seismic event that shattered the fragile unity of the young nation, reversed the political order, and set the country on an inexorable path to civil war. Occurring just seven months after the violent January 15 coup, the July …
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