Following a devastating hurricane season, what is the future of the lesser-known countries of the Caribbean/West Indies? Freelance reporter Kevin Edmonds joins the LMC to discuss how some smaller countries suffered, the sustainability of a tourism-based economy, global warming, and the sometimes racist nature of corporate media coverage.
Category Archives: Afro Diaspora
August 11th 2017: Racism in South America
Last June, racist statements by Peruvian commentator Phillip Butters sparked outrage and the urging of more discussion for having more Afro-Latino voices in Peruvian society. The LMC speaks with Afro-Latina activist and poet Shirley Campbell-Barr about the controversy that went viral throughout all of Latin America.
July 28th 2017: Barbados Examined
On this episode, the LMC speaks with Jason Opal, the assoc professor of History & Classical Studies @ McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He will tell us about the extraordinary brutal history of slavery and the struggle for social justice in Barbados. The slave state of Barbados was so horrific, the future USA took notes.
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