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I am a freelance reporter currently based in Dakar, Senegal.
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Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who returned to his native Poland after World War II to give voice to fellow victims of the Nazis and their collaborators, warning the world in writings and speeches about the dangers of indifference to racial and ethnic injustice, died in Warsaw at 98.

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“Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours”

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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

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Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, Madeleine Riffaud joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train. She died on Nov. 6 at her home in Paris. She was 100.

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Strikingly, the only group that responded en mass and IMMEDIATELY to the neo-Nazi march this weekend in Columbus was a group of black men. Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day. And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.

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The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968: exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/sho...

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The chef José Andrés on Thursday eulogized seven World Central Kitchen workers who were killed in Gaza on April 1 when their well-marked convoy was hit by armed Israeli drones. “They risked everything to feed people they did not know and will never meet.” nyti.ms/49S0UFJ

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It’s Oscar weekend! There is a new generation of Senegalese filmmakers who are setting out to tell their own stories on their own terms. With “Io Capitano” up for best foreign film, I wondered about the types of stories get told about Africa and by whom. My latest: www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...

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I spoke to young voters about Senegal’s presidential election for @csmonitor.bsky.social www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa...

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I wrote about the mounting tension amid Senegal’s election postponement: ‘We are at crossroads’: Tension builds in Senegal amid election delay www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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