Many of the students are terrified of the repercussions of speaking out in the media and have asked CNN to withhold their full names for fear of their safety.”We are living a nightmare. We don’t live, we are surviving,” Christophe, a first-year student from Cameroon living in Kherson, told CNN….
In the dramatic evacuation from the escalating military conflict, Black and Brown people have faced the additional traumatizing experiences of discrimination and racism. There are well-documented cases of Black and Brown people who were refused transportation to evacuate, separated from other evacuees at the border and made to wait in…
When the Russian army invaded Ukraine, many African Americans posted their opinion that it’s “none of our business”. Dr. Umar echoed this opinion, saying Africans should “mind our own business”. Apparently he didn’t know that African Ukrainians exist, and that many Africans and Caribbean diasporans live and study there. Of…
