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• The Long Wave: Trinidad and Tobago carnival celebrates African roots

  05-03-2025 13:26
  
  Soca veterans join forces with Afrobeats stars as the diaspora strengthens ties with the motherland. Plus, Angela Davis heads to LondonHello and welcome to The Long Wave. In our launch edition, I wrote about how one of the things I missed in the media landscape was the ability to simply meet others across the Black diaspora. In the months since, this newsletter has been that place for me, but never more so than this week, when I spoke to Natricia Duncan, our Caribbean correspondent, about this y
  
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• Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years

  05-03-2025 13:00
  The remains were taken to the US during a revolt led by Muslim slavesIn January 1835, wearing religious robes and carrying amulets inscribed with prayers and passages from the Qur’an, hundreds of African Muslims staged the most significant urban slave revolt in the more than 350 years of slavery in Brazil.About 600 Malês – as Muslims of Yoruba origin were known – attempted to seize control of Salvador, the capital of the Bahia state and then the country’s second mos
  
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