By Earl Bousquet
COVID-19 changed almost everything in 2020.
But the global change engine has also this year accelerated the frequency of clashes between old and new, past and present, ultimately resulting in increased resistance to institutionalized inequality, presenting greater challenges everywhere for those banking on maintaining the Status Quo to guarantee traditional levels of advantageous cohabitation […]
Monsignor calls for ‘Bold, Frank and Honest’ Regional Reparations Conversation
CASTRIES, Saint Lucia, August 21, 2020:– A Saint Lucian church leader has paid tribute to early contributors to the struggles for Black Liberation and Social development in and from the Caribbean between the 1970s and the 21st Century and called for the current discussion on Reparations […]
by Earl Bousquet
Whenever I say ‘I wish every Caribbean citizen would tune to UWItv
Global at least once a day’, I’m always asked to explain why — and I
always give more than one reason, each time.
One: It’s the only regional TV station and system committed to giving
the Caribbean a mirror to watch and a platform to […]
The expansion of banks such as Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and racial lines.
by Peter James Hudson
Scrubbed from the pages of glossy coffeetable books, the history of U.S. imperialism can be found in the archives of Wall Street’s oldest, largest, and most powerful institutions. A […]
by Ajamu Nangwaya
From chattel slavery to the current period of neocolonial flag independence, the Caribbean labouring classes have yet to exercise substantive power over the political institutions that govern their lives. A system of popular assemblies with the capacity to challenge the authoritarian liberal capitalist democracies for power would be one of the best […]
THE 186th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE CARICOM MEMBER-COUNTRIES WHICH WERE COLONISED BY BRITAIN
BY DR. THE HONOURABLE RALPH E. GONSALVES PRIME MINISTER OF ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM)
On August 1, 2020, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) commemorates the l86th anniversary of the abolition of the […]
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement that “there was no slavery in Australia” is at odds with the historical record
By Thalia Anthony & Stephen Gray
In 1891 a ‘Slave Map of Modern Australia’ was printed in the […]
This 1786 painting, titled “Portrait of a Haitian woman,” was done by François Malépart deBeaucourt and is believed to be an enslaved woman named Marie-Thérèse Zémire at age 15.
TORONTO — A pregnant teen escaping captivity in a wintry Quebec. A young woman forced to pose nude for a painter in Montreal. The son of a […]
THE WHITEWASHING OF HISTORY
By Wayne Curtis
A few years ago I was working with a family that wanted to build a rum distillery on their land—a 2,000-acre sugar plantation that their ancestors had acquired in the 1850s. They insisted to me from the outset that it not be called a sugar plantation but rather a “sugar […]
By Earl Bousquet
With Reparations in the air everywhere now more than ever on both sides of the Atlantic following the killing of George Floyd and the US Black Lives Matter protests, apologists for the heirs and successors of the benefits of the Slave Trade and against growing Reparations are working overtime to undermine the increasing […]
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