Nicole Ramsey, a PhD candidate in African American & African Diaspora Studies @ the University of California in Berkeley, speaks with the LMC to discuss how Black Lives Matter in Belize challenges the conventions of Central American history and identity.
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January 24th, 2020: Latinidad in Belize
Do the terms Hispanic, Latino, or even Latinx apply to our brother’s and sister’s in Belize? The LMC tries to find out when we spend the hour with Kayla Alamilla about how Latinidad is complicated in Belize. Kayla Alamilla is a Belizean-American writer, poet, and songwriter.
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.
