Category: Roots
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Elimination of Racial Discrimination Day
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde Today is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, established in 1966, by the United Nations after considering all the previous resolutions of discrimination and apartheid. This day was chosen in memory of…
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Are you a Person of Colour?
I don’t like to be called brown or people of colour because it washes away my skin’s colour and sets me into a box where there are too many other ethnic identities which causes confusion. Shirlene Green N
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Racial Discrimination
Elimination of racial discrimination is not only about skin colour, is also descent, nacional origin, gender etc.
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Fight for freedom
As we celebrate Black History Month I want to remember all those women and girls who were tortured, raped, killed, auctioned, and exploited to work on a plantation. Thousands were separated from their family, had their original names changed, gave birth to children products of rape, obligated to breastfeed the master’s children and many other…
Women Wheel 