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For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry – and a brief window to fight back

Adolphe Duperly’s painting depicting the destruction of the Roehampton Estate in Jamaica during the Baptist War in January 1832. Wikimedia Commons by Ana Lucia Araujo,...

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

A Confederate Festival attendee visits the American cemetery in Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Brazil, on April 24, 2016. Mario Tama/Getty Images by Jordan Brasher, Macalester College There...

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations sweep across global cities

PROTESTERS in countries with substantial Muslim populations, including the U.S., U.K., and France, expressed disillusionment with their governments for their support of Israel amidst...

What the US can learn from affirmative action at universities in Brazil

Affirmative action for college students in Brazil led to better employment prospects for those who benefited from the policy. Cesar Okada via Getty Images by Neil...

As BRICS cooperation accelerates, is it time for the US to develop a BRICS policy?

by Mihaela Papa, Tufts University; Frank O'Donnell, Boston College, and Zhen Han, Sacred Heart University When leaders of the BRICS group of large emerging economies...

What the US can learn from affirmative action at universities in Brazil

Affirmative action for college students in Brazil led to better employment prospects for those who benefited from the policy. Cesar Okada via Getty Images by Neil...

US talks sanctions against Uganda after a harsh anti-gay law

The annual gay pride parade in Entebbe, Uganda, in 2014. Isaac Kasamani/AFP via Getty Images – but criminalizing same-sex activities has become a political tactic globally by Nicolette...

Astrud Gilberto spread bossa nova to a welcoming world – but got little love back in Brazil

Astrud Gilberto backstage at New York City’s Birdland Jazz Club in 1964. Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images by Mario Higa, Middlebury Astrud Gilberto didn’t set...

European soccer is having another reckoning over racism

Vinícius Júnior is making the point, but are soccer’s governing bosses getting it? Aitor Alcalde Colomer/Getty Images – is it time to accept the problem goes...

5 types of threat – how those who want to divide us use language to stoke violence

by H. Colleen Sinclair, Louisiana State University Events like the riots in Brazil, the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection two years before it and the...

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