The United States joined Israel and Argentina on Thursday in voting against a Ghana-led resolution that declared the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans the “gravest crime against humanity” and urged countries to pursue reparations. The nonbinding measure, backed by more than 120 nations, calls for formal apologies, compensation, and other forms of reparatory justice for […]
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Ghana Helped U.S. Deport Migrants, and Now Its Own Citizens Are Shut Out
“America is a bully that is never satisfied,” Oliver Barker-Vormawor said from Ghana. The Trump administration’s new freeze on immigrant visas from 75 nations is the latest example, he added. African nations make up a striking share of the 75 countries swept into the Trump administration’s new freeze on immigrant visas, a move officials say […]
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Ghanaians Across Two Continents Are Living in Fear as U.S. Immigration Crackdowns Intensify
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Capital B has chosen to use first names for some sources due to security concerns. Photos by Adam Mahoney except where noted. GREATER ACCRA REGION, Ghana — About an hour and a half east of Ghana’s capital city, Gladys Adgy stood outside a stand in Kpone waiting […]
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West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
ACCRA, Ghana — A West African woman deported by the United States to Ghana recently attempted suicide in custody, and several other deportees have been secretly transferred, according to Ana Dionne-Lanier, an attorney for one of the deportees. Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration […]
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Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations
In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations. African leaders recently took the global stage at the U.N.’s General Assembly in New York, where Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, announced plans to submit the first formal […]
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Black Americans Find a Racism Respite Through ‘Blaxit’
This article was originally published by The Emancipator, a nonprofit digital magazine that reimagines the nation’s first abolitionist newspapers for a new day. Twanna Hines watched her television in shock on Jan. 6, 2021, from her Washington, D.C., home as hundreds of people who believed the lie that Donald Trump had won the 2020 election […]