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Black women’s health is worth investing in
Black women leaders and creatives can help to build healthy black women’s futures, writes Dr L TONI LEWIS
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
FOR many black women in the United States, 2024 started with a series of very public displays demonstrating the various challenges that are faced in society.
For many of us, the aggressive path leading to the resignation of Dr Claudine Gay; the attempted public humbling of district-attorney Fani Willis; the workplace environment contributing to the death by suicide of Dr Antoinette Candia-Bailey; and the sudden deaths of Dr Edith Mitchell and Dr Debbie Ann Turner sent a collective chill through our bodies and souls.
These very public events also sent this chill not only because of the specific events, but also because of how familiar these trajectories felt in our own lives.
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