Colonialism News

Putting humans on display, Paris museum asks why

By theGrio

9:57 AM on 11/28/2011

PARIS (AP) - Curator Lilian Thuram, former football star and now anti-racism advocate, says in an AP interview that the exhibit made him reflect on his own prejudices about "the other."
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German museum returning skulls from racial experiments

By theGrio

11:05 AM on 09/30/2011

BERLIN (AP) - Namibian tribal leaders took possession Friday of the skulls of 20 of their countrymen, taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments...
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Dutch Royal House criticized for 'racist' painting

By theGrio

9:58 AM on 09/16/2011

AMSTERDAM (AP) - The "Golden Carriage" was given to Queen Wilhelmina from the people of Amsterdam as a gift in 1898...
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How Gadhafi's false 'Pan-Africanism' failed to pay off

By Babacar MBow

8:14 AM on 08/23/2011

OPINION - Gadhafi must now face a reality Africans have been clamoring about for the past fifteen years: that he is an enemy of African unification, not a champion of it.
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Congo celebrates 50th anniversary as its people struggle to survive

By theGrio

7:55 AM on 06/30/2010

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Fabulous minerals. Magnificent music. Great cuisine. And a people still mired in violence and misery...
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Does 'Avatar' have racist undertones?

By theGrio

9:22 AM on 01/11/2010

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are white...
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theGrio Reflects: Ghana freed from colonial rule

By theGrio

8:00 AM on 07/09/2009

On the eve of President Obama's visit to Ghana, theGrio looks back to when the country first celebrated its independence from British rule. On March 6, 1957 citizens of the new state of Ghana gathered for a celebration marking their freedom from colonialism. What was once the gold coast of...
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