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Black Mexicans Face Racism Daily in Mexico – Free Press of Jacksonville

In 2016, Mexico’s government for the first time ever recognized the 1.38 million citizens of African descent living in the country. They weren’t counted in the national census until 2015. In Mexico’s 2020 national census, “black” will debut as an official category.

Afro-Mexicans, also known as Black Mexicans, are Mexicans who have both a predominant heritage from Sub-Saharan Africa and identify as such. As a single population, Afro-Mexicans includes individuals descended from Spanish colonial era transatlantic African slaves brought by force to Mexico, as well as others of more recent immigrant African descent, including Afro-descended persons from neighboring English, French, and Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean and Central America, and to a recent-immigrants from Africa.

Source: Black Mexicans Face Racism Daily in Mexico – Free Press of Jacksonville

Story of Ghanaian Slave Woman Who Led the Biggest Slave Revolt in The West Indies In 1733

When slavery is discussed in the media and is taught in schools, very little is mentioned of the strong and fierce resistance which Africans put up against the slavers and their accomplices.

Source: Story of Ghanaian Slave Woman Who Led the Biggest Slave Revolt in The West Indies In 1733

Bolsonaro’s ego stands in the way of saving the Amazon opinion) – CNN

The Amazon fires are scorching the Earth’s most vital ecosystem at such a voracious rate that by the time you read this, thousands more trees will have turned to ashes. Brazil’s space research agency calculates that one-and-a-half soccer fields worth of rainforest burns every single minute. That destruction includes more than trees — it is engulfing everything that lives in the forest and cannot escape.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s gaslighting around global aid for his country to fight the devastating fires in the Amazon is a perfect — perfectly awful — example of what happens when nationalist demagogues take power, says Frida Ghitis.

Source: Bolsonaro’s ego stands in the way of saving the Amazon opinion) – CNN

UN Women Staying Silent As China Forcibly Sterilizes Uyghur Women In Detention Centers | TIBET, ACTIVISM AND INFORMATION

As we write this post, in various regions of the world women’s NGOs are assembling to prepare for next year’s UN Commission On The Status Of Women which marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). Contained within that declaration the following is urged of governments to: “Take all appropriate measures to eliminate harmful, medically unnecessary or coercive medical interventions…” and that “Acts of violence against women also include forced sterilization and forced abortion, coercive/forced use of contraceptives…” (section D, paragraph 115).

Source: UN Women Staying Silent As China Forcibly Sterilizes Uyghur Women In Detention Centers | TIBET, ACTIVISM AND INFORMATION

Black Columbia law students force Central Park 5 prosecutor to resign – Rolling Out

When they hear us. This time, Columbia University was forced to see and hear members of the distinguished Black Law Student Association as these future legal lions roared across this prestigious, picturesque Ivy League institution and called for the resignation of Elizabeth Lederer, a lead prosecutor in the Central Park Five case and a lecturer on their campus. Lederer quietly resigned on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 12, 2019. It comes seven years after the same organization demanded that she resign following the airing of the 2012 documentary “The Central Park Five.” They didn’t see us then. But they see us now.

Source: Black Columbia law students force Central Park 5 prosecutor to resign – Rolling Out