For centuries, Suriname’s Maroons have preserved ancestral traditions and resisted capitalist encroachment. But climate change and gold mining now threaten their way of life.
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16 events,On December 31st, 1999, the United States officially returned the control of the canal to Panama, honoring the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
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A star child, a forest spirit, a goat on a quest, nothing here stays ordinary for long. These tales open portals through difference, and fear, where magic isn’t an escape, but a way to face the world. Wonder is serious business.
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On December 31st, 1999, the United States officially returned the control of the canal to Panama, honoring the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. Behind the historic signing lay a complex web of international diplomacy and intrigue, steered by General Omar Torrijos.
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What we bury, what we carry, what waits across the sea. Home flickers between places and people, between distance and return.
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Forty years ago, scholar Philomena Essed sparked fierce public debate with her groundbreaking book, Everyday Racism.
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An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
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Born on a sugar plantation in rural Guyana to indentured Indian laborers, Cheddi Jagan rose from humble beginnings to become the Western Hemisphere’s first democratically elected Marxist leader.
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In the 18th century, enslaved Africans on an Island in the Caribbean revolted to fight for their freedom by using their forbidden cultural rituals and folklores, that creative resistance movement is the current day , “Caribbean Carnival”.
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After being elected to power in 1957, François Duvalier declared himself Haiti’s President for life in 1964, inaugurating one of the most bloodthirsty dictatorships of the 20th century – maintained through violent repression and brutal obscurantism.
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