Amid right-wing backlash and setbacks in the historic effort to rewrite the dictatorship-era constitution, Pinochet’s shadow still hangs heavy. By Carole Concha Bell, NACLA — Ahead of Chile’s 50th anniversary…
The Afro-Chilean population is one that has historically been left out and unrecognized in Chile. But that all changed in 2019. By Parker Diakite, Travel Noire — After decades of…
By Lilian Bobea — The massive protests that erupted across the United States – and beyond – after the police killing of George Floyd are billed as anti-racist mobilizations, and that they are. Demonstrators are denouncing police violence in minority communities and demanding that officers who abuse their power be held accountable. But I see something more in this wave of American protests, too. As a sociologist specializing in Latin America’s human rights movements and…
By Kelebogile Zvobgo — Between 1850 and 1950, thousands of African American men, women and children were victims of lynchings: public torture and killings carried out by white mobs. Lynchings were…