Following the assassination of Afro-Brazilian rights activist & politician Marielle Franco in March, the LMC speaks with Professor Jaime Alves about the life, legacy, and the fight against institutionalized racism in Brazil. Jaime Alves is an assistant professor at the College of Staten Island, NY and the author of, “The Anti-Black City: Police Terror & Black Urban Life in Brazil.”
Category Archives: Afro Diaspora
March 9th, 2018: Belize vs Big Oil
Janelle Chanona, the Vice President of the Belize Committee of Oceana, speaks with the LMC about the extraordinary grassroots efforts to ban future oil drillings in Mesoamerican coral reef, the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Belize may be small, but it is front and center in the struggle for environmental justice in Latin America/West Indies.
Jan 19th 2018: Haiti & the TPS
Following racist & xenophobic remarks by Donald Trump regarding Haitians and other Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients, the LMC speaks with Haitian-American Jessicah Pierre to set the record straight on the Haitian-American experience. Jessicah Pierre is the Inequality Media Specialist for the Institute for Policy Studies.
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