Diaspora

ABOVE PHOTO: Carl Gates, right, grandfather of American soldier Travis King, and Myron Gates, uncle of King, pose, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Kenosha, Wis. Pvt. King bolted into North Korea while on a tour of the Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday, July 18, a day after he was supposed to travel to a base in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Muslim protestors shout slogans against the burning of the Quran in Sweden, outside the Baitul Muqarram Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 7, 2023. Anger has grown in Muslim countries since last Wednesday when a man identified in Swedish media as a Christian from Iraq burned the Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A woman holds a placard reading “Our blood runs on their uniform” during a protest in Paris, France, Friday, June 30, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron urged parents Friday to keep teenagers at home and proposed restrictions on social media to quell rioting spreading across France over the fatal police shooting of a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: People walk past shuttered shops in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Sudan’s embattled capital has awoken to a fourth day of heavy fighting between the army and a powerful rival force for control of the country. Airstrikes and shelling intensified on Monday in parts of Khartoum and the adjoining city of Omdurman….

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ABOVE PHOTO: FADZAI MUCHEMWA, NATIONAL ART GALLERY CURATOR, looks at Nothando Chiwanga’s art piece, “Immortal”, in Harare, Friday, April, 14, 2023. Chiwanga’s “Immortal” is one of 21 works by female artists that have been on show at the southern African country’s national gallery since International Women’s Day on March 8. The exhibition is titled “We…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Crystal Kornickey holds up casts of her hands in a studio at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. She is one of 36 people whose hands will be cast in bronze for a memorial to the likely enslaved people discovered in an unmarked burial ground. In…

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ABOVE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, Tuesday March 28, 2023. This castle was one of around 40 “slave castles” that served as prisons and embarkation points for slaves en route to the Americas. Harris is on a seven-day African visit that will also take her to Tanzania…

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ABOVE PHOTO: People take part in the Baghdad Kite Festival in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) By John Daniszewski ASSOCIATED PRESS  BAGHDAD — On the banks of the Tigris River one recent evening, young Iraqi men and women in jeans and sneakers danced with joyous abandon to a local rap star…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Soldiers help clear out an encampment set up by supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro outside army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, the day after Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in the capital. (AP Photo/Gustavo Moreno) By Carla Bridi ASSOCIATED PRESS  SALVADOR, Brazil — Thousands of Brazilians who support…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest…

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