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A study by Pittsburgh’s Gender Equity Commission in 2019 deemed the city as one of the worst places for a Black woman. It found that the city’s Black women make only 54 cents to every dollar that its white men do and that Black women are five times more likely
Raphaël Confiant’s Grand-Z'Ongle: Le Maître de l’invisible was published by Caraibéditions in April 2023. A recurring figure in Martinican literature, including novels by Raphaël Confiant et de Patrick Chamoiseau, Faustin Homat, also known as Grand-Z'Ongle, was considered to be the greatest quimboiseurs of the island. Also see excerpts from Cynthia Roussi-Sabas’s (France-Antilles) interview with the author below.…
Although I knew that he was ailing, I was still stunned to learn that another great mind of the 20th century was extinguished today. Philosopher/poet/novelist Edouard Glissant passed away today (February 3, 2011) in Paris at the age of 82. Many thanks to Kevin Meehan for this obituary from Le Monde. [The obituary is followed…