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Dans le quartier de \\\"Sweet Auburn\\\", on honore les grandes figures du mouvement, comme ici John Lewis

French president pays tribute to 'hero' John Lewis

Rapper YG -- shown here at a Los Angeles protest on June 7, 2020 -- released a new song "FTP" that has become an anthem of Black Lives Matter demonstrations

World Music Matters

'Black Lives Matter', and songs are showing it's a fact

Mauritius Police Demonstration PortLouis Jacques Achille 2012

Rights groups in Mauritius wary as police extend powers under Covid-19

In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

'Noire': Graphic storytelling show remembers rights activist Claudette Colvin

In Assam State, some men wait to see if their names are on the citizenship life while a soldier stands guard. If not and they can susbstantiate their claim, they will have to appeal to special foreigner tribunals. 31 August 2019

India Demographic Politics

India's Assam State exclusion list gets flak from home and abroad

People check their names on the final list of the National Register of Citizens at a roadside shop in Pavakati village of Morigoan district, some 70 killometres from Guwahati, the capital city of India's north-eastern state of Assam.

India: Nearly 2m people face stateless status in Assam

Ursuline Kairson (in the middle) performs Maya Angelou in the play 'Maya, une voix,' or 'Maya, a voice,' 20 July 2019

United States-Theatre

Bringing the life of Maya Angelou to France

The Scottish parliament.

International report

Two decades of winners and losers in Scotland's parliament

Patrice Spinosi, French lawyer of Rachel Lambert, the wife of Vincent Lambert, a quadriplegic man who has been in a vegetative state for the last decade, speaks to the press after an appeal hearing at the Court of Cassation in Paris, on June 28, 2019.

French court rules to end life support in right-to-die case

Sarah Lenka was deeply touched by the heartfelt chant of several African American women from the early part of the century

World Music Matters

Sarah Lenka sings legacy of African-American women's blues

Claudette Colvin seated in her home, Bronx, New York

International report

Claudette Colvin: the precursor to Rosa Parks in the US Civil Rights Movement

The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

Reverend Jesse Jackson looks on during a ceremony at the Luxembourg Gardens to mark the anniversary of the abolition of slavery and to pay tribute to the victims of the slave trade, in Paris, on May 10, 2016

France - Civil Rights

Jesse Jackson ‘didn’t know’ who J-M Le Pen is

President Francois Hollande during his New Year's greeting to address the nation's youth and to people who work for the common good, Paris, France, 11 January 2016

Hollande to boost France’s successful civic service

Kampala women protest ban on mini-skirts

Uganda performer faces 10-year jail sentence under new anti-porn law

A Rohingya child being identified in Kuala Langsa, Indonesia on May 18, 2015.

Who are the Rohingyas, the "most persecuted minority in the world"?

The Mémorial ACTe at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.

BARBADos - BAHAMAS - CUBA - FRANCE - HAITI

Hollande inaugurates world's largest slavery memorial in French West Indies

Martin Luther King giving his historic 'I have a dream' speech in Washington in August 1963

On-the-spot France

Does France need its Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Melvin and Jean McNair

Ex-Black Panther and hijacker refuged in France, dies at 68

Amelia Boynton Robinson meets US President Lyndon Johnson in 1965

With liberty and justice for ALL

French anti-smacking law postponed amid opposition to family bill

French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira will receive

France to debate easier divorces

Lucien Neuwirth

Father of French contraceptive pill dies

Beautiful dreamer

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