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Ex-Brexit negotiator has enacted a handbrake turn to the Right in his bid to run for the French presidency for his Republicans Party

Having a reputation for bringing to light overlooked art, the 54-year-old, who is the new head of the world's most popular art museum, could change its skewed appreciation.

Author Protester facing police at a Black Lives Matter protest in London, UK – June 6, 2020. Photo: Viktor Kadiri / Shutterstock.com The Movement for Black Lives not only exposed the brutality of US policing, it has stimulated conversations on systemic racism and coercive state power everywhere. For the tenth edition of its flagship State of Power report, the Transnational Institute has brought together two brilliant thinkers on racial capitalism today. Achille Mbembe is a groundbreaking philosopher, whose many books since the mid 1980s have exposed how coloniality has shaped democracy, ...

Gou Kréol (1994) reflecting on the common Creole culture across the Indian Ocean. But séga also gave rise to a genre the Seychelles claims as its own – the moutya. A deeply communal performance of dance and music, the moutya’s characteristic flat goatskin drum is tuned by being warmed by the heat of the open fire around which the gathering takes place and is joined by improvised call and response singing. In recent years Victoria has been at the heart of efforts to preserve this sound of more than 200 years’ history. There were thousands of slaves on the Seychelles islands by the ear...

Pap Ndiaye is taking over France’s state-run immigration museum. The country must confront its colonial past to conquer present racial injustice. share this article A Black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who’s taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says it’s “vital” for his country to confront its colonial past so that it can conquer present racial injustice. “The French are highly reluctant to look at the dark dimensions of their own history,” Pap Ndiaye told the Associated Press in his museum, initially built to display colonial...