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UWI Ranked the Leading University in the Caribbean

By News & Current Affairs

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has moved up five notches in the Times Higher Education Latin America University Rankings since last year. In the 2019 report published by the prestigious UK-based ranking agency, UWI placed 32nd among the 150 best-ranked universities across Latin America and the Caribbean. The UWI, in a statement to the media, said its university was ranked number one out of 200 registered universities in…

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People react as President Trump speaks to supporters at a rally on August 15, 2019, in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Henry A. Giroux: Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism

By Commentaries/Opinions

By Kelly Wilkins, Media For Us — We spoke with cultural critic and one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy, Henry Giroux, about his latest book, The Terror of the Unforeseen, in which he warns that the economic tyranny of neoliberal capitalism and a culture of cruelty and objectification set the stage for Trump’s rise and the emergence of fascism. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. Media…

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During the 50th NAACP Image Awards, the NAACP announced its historic Jamestown to Jamestown event partnership with The Adinkra Group, SunSeekers Tours, Ghana Tourism Authority and The Year of Return, marking the 400th year enslaved Africans first touched the shores of what would become America.

NAACP Observes 400th Anniversary of Slave Trade in Journey from Jamestown to Jamestown

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By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — On Sunday, August 18, the NAACP began a journey to honor African ancestors. Members of the storied civil rights organization and numerous guests boarded a bus from Washington, D.C. Their initial destination was Jamestown, Virginia’s Colonial National Park, where they held a prayer vigil and candle lighting ceremony to mark the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans. The two-week-long…

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