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Day: September 5, 2014

  • Will Brazil elect Marina Silva as the world’s first Green president?

    Will Brazil elect Marina Silva as the world’s first Green president? The Guardian/The Observer 2014-08-30 Jonathan Watts, Latin America Correspondent Born into a poor, mixed-race Amazon family, Marina Silva is on the verge of a stunning election win after taking over her party It started with the national anthem and ended with a rap. In…

  • Transracial Adoption – No Longer a Black and White Issue

    Transracial Adoption – No Longer a Black and White Issue Afropean: Adveures in Afro Europe 2014-09-03 Nat Illumine N.b. This article is based on research conducted by the author for an undergraduate dissertation entitled ‘A Political Minefield: Transracial Adoption Policy and the Mixed Race Experience’ (2013) alongside a British Association of Adoption and Fostering conference…

  • Faces of the Democratic Future

    Faces of the Democratic Future The American Prospect 2014-09-04 Gabriel Arana, Senior Editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Elaine Teng, Assistant to the Editor The New Republic Young leaders on the future of their party Demographers and political prognosticators like to talk about the rising “Obama electorate.” Majority-minority, more liberal on social and financial issues alike than their…

  • Market-style reforms widen racial divide in Cuba

    Market-style reforms widen racial divide in Cuba Reuters 2014-09-02 (Reuters) – Cuba’s experiment with free-market reforms has unintentionally widened the communist-led island’s racial divide and allowed white Cubans to regain some of the economic advantages built up over centuries. Under President Raúl Castro, who took over from his brother Fidel Castro in 2008, Cuba has…