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Secretary Blinken and the US ambassador to Jamaica shake hands

‘Frank, difficult conversations’: State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel speaks on Haiti, Gaza

Foreign policy

As conflict continues to unfold in Haiti and Gaza, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel joins The World’s Carolyn Beeler to talk about US policy options in both places.

Residents stand amid their homes damaged by a gasoline truck that overturned and exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti

‘Haitians deserve a chance to determine their own future,’ former US envoy says

Justice
People hold posters as they take part in a demonstration against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, at the Emancipation park in Kingston, Jamaica, June 6, 2020.

Amid global protests, Jamaicans confront their own problems with policing 

Violence
A person in a hoodie turned away from the camera speaks on a cell phone

LGBTQ helplines see surge as queer communities face lockdown in hostile homes

COVID-19
A Black man in a suit stands by a Range Rover holding a book

Caribbean community mourns Gil Bailey, ‘Godfather of Reggae Radio’

Community
A woman looks back over a river with a building behind her.

Readers mourn author Andrea Levy who pushed for a more ‘inclusive’ version of Britain’s history

Arts, Culture & Media

Andrea Levy’s books explored the lives of the Windrush generation — nearly half million people who moved from the Caribbean to Britain to fill labor shortages after WWII.

people marching

Global Women’s Marches persevere despite divisions among US activists

This year’s Women’s March in the US is experiencing some tension at the top, but that hasn’t slowed down other women across the globe who are also marching for their rights.

Woman with short hair wearing a black and white top raises her right arm while reading in front of a microphone.

A formerly anti-gay reggae star returns to Jamaica. This lesbian poet calls it ‘complicated.’

Arts, Culture & Media

Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton returned to Jamaica in early December after serving seven years in a US prison on drug charges. Banton got a hero’s welcome, despite his infamous, 1993 anti-gay song “Boom Bye Bye” which called for the murder of gay people.

Man in orang jumpsuit dancing in front of two people in army fatigues

This is a remix? Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ has started a global wave of remix videos

Future Folk

More than 15 artists from other countries have produced their own country-specific versions of Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America.’

MacGregor “Mac” Hay speaks with some customers at Mac’s Shack in Wellfleet. Hay is entering his 23rd summer on the Cape running his popular Mac’s restaurants and markets.

Cape Cod restaurants brace for (another) tough summer without enough foreign workers

Immigration

It’s Groundhog Day on Cape Cod again. There’s a shortage of summer workers, due at least in part to changes in the H-2B visa program, which allows American businesses to hire temporary, seasonal workers from overseas.