For weeks, the French Caribbean island of Martinique has been the site of at-times violent protests over high living costs and worsening economic conditions. And Martinique isn’t alone; in the ...

For weeks, the French Caribbean island of Martinique has been the site of at-times violent protests over high living costs and worsening economic conditions. And Martinique isn’t alone; in the ...

The first was the 150th anniversary of the French abolition of colonial slavery in 1998. ... black and Afro-Caribbean activists demanded greater attention to enslaved Africans' suffering.

Also brought down Sunday to screams of delight was a statue of Pierre Bélain d’Esnambuc, a French trader who in 1635 established France’s first permanent Caribbean colony on Martinique.

Today, this historic moment is commemorated in Britain’s former colonies in the Caribbean and Canada. View this post on Instagram. ... Slavery was abolished in the French colonies in 1848.

For weeks, the French Caribbean island of Martinique has been the site of at-times violent protests over high living costs and worsening economic conditions. And Martinique isn’t alone; in the ...

PARIS (AP) — Cheering protesters tugging on ropes tore down a statue of Napoleon's wife on the Caribbean island of Martinique and another from the French territory's colonial history, adding ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David A. Vivian, Soka University of America (THE CONVERSATION) For weeks, the ...

Echoing this perspective, Martinican sociologist Malcom Ferdinand observed in 2022 that the ongoing economic struggles in the French Caribbean “are not only linked to the colonial, slave-making ...

Members of the French union CGT Martinique perform a go-slow protest on the ring road leading to the airport in Fort-de-France, on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, on Oct. 15, 2024 ...