Professor Yveline Alexis on New Book, Activism, and Haitian Diaspora – The Oberlin Review
admin | January 11, 2022
Editors note: This article contains graphic descriptions of police brutality.
The Passion of the Greek Diaspora for Greece – Greek Reporter
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Credit: Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0 From ancient times to the modern day, Greeks of the diaspora those who have left their native land to make a home abroad have enriched the international community. By Constantine Passaris Last years bicentennial celebrations of the Greek revolution of 1821 spotlighted the passion of the Greek diaspora for their homeland. The celebrations revealed that the contemporary Greek diaspora has a global presence and an overarching international influence.
Members of global Indian diaspora demand arrest of those responsible for genocidal hate speech at Haridwar conclave – The Hindu
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Members of the global Indian diaspora and citizens in many countries have voiced concern over alleged inflammatory and provocative speeches against Muslims at an event in Haridwar and demanded immediate arrest of those responsible for what they called genocidal hate speech at the conclave. "Diaspora groups across South Africa, Australia, USA, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Finland and New Zealand, representing Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian communities expressed their rage on Twitter" over the provocative speeches at the Haridwar Dharam Sansad held last month, said a joint statement issued by a group of 28 organisations. The statement also criticised the government over its failure to arrest those responsible for genocidal hate speech at the Haridwar Dharam Sansad.
Mondays at Beinecke: Building Restorative Justice Across the African Diaspora with Kwame Akoto-Bamfo – Yale News
admin | January 11, 2022
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3sjURYz Co-sponsored by Yales Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies A presentation of survivors semiotics with acclaimed artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, founder of the Nkyinkyim Museum in Nuhalenya Ada, Ghana (https://ancestorprojectgh.com).
Edith’s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and More New York Restaurant Openings – The New York Times
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HeadlinerEdiths Elyssa Heller, a Chicago native who settled in New York 10 years ago, has been building a career in food. She worked in marketing and operations for several companies, and then, without quitting her day job, started Ediths, as a pop-up at Paulie Gees Slice Shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 2020 selling items like handmade bagels. Christina Jackson, formerly of Tetsu, and Benjamin Leung, formerly of Manhatta, prepared the food
Forthcoming Basquiat Movie Aims to Tell Story of His Incredible Life As a Black Artist and Child of the Immigrant African Diaspora – ARTnews
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The storied rise and fall of Jean-Michel Basquiat is headed for a new rendering on the silver screen, according to Variety. Under the title Samo Lives (citing the mantle that Basquiat used as a mysterious graffiti tag on the streets of New York), the biopic is being developed and financed by Endeavor Content and director Julius Onah, whose credits include 2015s The Girl Is in Trouble (a name-making debut produced by Spike Lee), 2018s The Cloverfield Paradox (produced by J
How tech start-up is attempting to improve small businesses funding – The New Times
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are key to the growth of African economies, but they are often plagued by challenges among them lack of adequate funding to startup or grow their businesses. Though governments like Rwandas are doing a lot to create a supportive and enabling environment, capital challenges still linger, especially for the micro SMEs operating in the informal sector, which find it hard to obtain loans from banks due to failure to meet the necessary requirements, for example collateral. Marlon Weir, a Jamaican-American diaspora who has relocated to Rwanda is developing a 1st of its kind, unique IT solution which he reckons can be a platform for local SMEs to qualify and host micro-investment opportunities, which will aid them in accessing funding from their counterparts in outside countries (the rest of Africa and the global African diaspora).
Diaspora Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
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Origin of diasporaFirst recorded in 16901700; from Greek diaspor scattering, dispersion; see origin at dia-, sporehistorical usage of diaspora The history of the term diaspora shows how a word's meaning can spread from a very specific sense to encompass much broader ones. Diaspora first entered English in the late 17th century to describe the communities of urban, observant Jews who lived in the larger cities of the Roman Empire (e.g., Rome, Alexandria, Antioch) and were proselytized by the first generation of Christians (i.e., the Apostles and their disciples) in the mid-first century a.d. The Jewish Diaspora (often capitalized) began with the deportation of Israelites by the Assyrian and Babylonian kings in the 8th, 7th, and 5th centuries b.c
The Passion of the Greek Diaspora for their homeland – Neos Kosmos
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Last years bicentennial celebrations of the Greek revolution of 1821 have spotlighted the passion of the Greek Diaspora for their homeland. The celebrations revealed that the contemporary Greek Diaspora has a global presence and an overarching international influence. The Greek Diaspora radiates a geopolitical soft power that serves as a strategic tool for Greeces national causes and foreign policy.
Bellwoods Brewery Releases Nile Coffee Diaspora Blend Edition of A Stout With Coffee – Canadian Beer News
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TORONTO, ONBellwoods Breweryhas announced the latest edition in a series of stouts we created to feature local coffee roasters, and observe the results of different beans in beer. A Stout With Coffee: Nile Coffee Diaspora Blend (5% abv): How do you take your coffee? If you answered I prefer to drink the essence of coffee enveloped in a delicious, chewy stout.
