Police fire tear gas at protesters in Istanbul during the Gezi Park unrest in 2013. Photo courtesy of Arzu Geybullayeva. Turkish police clashed with protesters on May 31 who were planning to mark the nine-year anniversary of Istanbul’s famous Gezi Park…
A Jamaican school’s ‘Green Generation’ wants more action, less talk, to save the planet
Members of the school club ‘Green Generation,’ doing their part for the environment in Jamaica. Photos courtesy Green Generation, used with permission. Campion College is a co-educational, independent high school in uptown Kingston. Founded in 1960 by …
Commercialisation of one of Port of Spain’s oldest communities inspires Trinidadian Leona Fabien to advocate through her art
Some of the artwork at Leona Fabien’s exhibition, ‘Woodbrook, a living hell,’ which was on display at Port of Spain’s Soft Box Gallery from April 29 to May 13. Photo by Janine Mendes-Franco, used with permission. To the west of Trinidad’s capital, Port…
Spreading misinformation about Kosovo was once again used as part of election strategy in Serbia
Square in Pristina, featuring a mural of Ibrahim Rugova. Photo by Global Voices, CC-BY 3.0. This story was originally published by Sbunker as part of the regional initiative Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub. An edited version is republished by G…
Meet the African women athletes making an impact in international basketball leagues
2013 WNBA Finals Game 3: Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license Kenya-born Olivia Nelson-Ododa was selected to join the Los Angeles Sparks in April 2022, making her the first basketballer of Kenyan descent to play in the US Women’s National Basketball Associati…
Do Russian classics need a new interpretation after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Interview with scholar Ani Kokobobo
Screenshot from The School of Life YouTube channel. One area where Russia has firmly established its soft power since the 19th century is literature. Authors such as Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, poets including Pushkin, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and Brods…
Africans are changing how they consume music and even taking on international streaming giants
Photo by Muhammadtaha Ibrahim Ma’aji. Used under the Unsplash License Following global trends, compact disc (CDs) sales in three key markets on the African continent, South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria have been on a steady decline for the last two decad…
TIME Magazine chooses Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley as one of ‘the world’s most influential people’
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture held in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 10, 2019. Photo by Timothy Sullivan (UNCTAD) on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. “The choice of my public life has been to be a lawyer, an adv…
The propagandist Dugin and the justification of Russian imperialism
Alexandr Dugin. Subtitle reads: ‘…and perfidy i.e. from the viewpoint of Orthodox Christianity, the Antichrist is the USA.’ Photo: Screen capture of the Milenko Nedelkovski Show, December 2015. This article by media analyst Žarko Trajanoski was origina…
In their own words: Facilitated conversation as a way to report on Latin America
Screenshot of one of the facilitated conversations. The participants were Pamela Molina from Washington, D.C. (top left) and Margareth Durán Vaca from Santa Cruz, Bolivia (bottom left), sign language interpreter Lourdes Cruz from Santa Cruz, Bolivia (t…