An article on Roma food. Full of stereotypes. Nomads, hedgehogs, cast system, all sort of mish-mash which is not good and represents bad journalism.
But well, what can you expect …
An article on the double prejudice faced by Moslem Roma. Not easy.
The article states there are over 20 Mio Roma worldwide. This is not quite correct.
A theatre piece is being played in Brooklyn by the Berlin company DorkyPark on Roma.
A new project has been launched in Brazil aiming at helping the country’s Roma. There are quite a few Roma living in Brazil, a fact that is not well known.
The University of Southern Patagonia of Argentina – UNPA which has been involved for years in spreading the Romani culture and above all it deals with the condition of women Romani women is organising an International Congress of Romani Women from the 17th to the 19th of August.
In addition to Argentina, Romani women from Brazil, the USA, Spain, Romania, Ukraine, Italy will attend. For Italy, Giulia Di Rocco has been called for the second time to take part and will talk about the situation of Romani women between discrimination and struggles for gender equality.
Roma activist Selviya Mustafi from North Macedonia discussed a “Democratic Digital Organization” with former US President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen Democratic Summit in a panel.
An interview with the leader of the band “Gogol’s Bordello” who has Ukrainian Romani roots.
Zsolt Bayer, author of racist and anti-Semitic remarks, is among the speakers at the event organized in Budapest by an American conservative group. He qualified Jews of “stinking excrements” and Roma of “animals.
So much for these conservative Americans …
The speech of the UN Secretary General on the occasion of the International Roma Day.
Some people noticed the course on Gypsy criminality from the Kansas City Police (which showed, by the way their total ignorance of the subject). The course got cancelled.
Good!
Read the offering of a police academy in Kansas, USA. IT clearly shows that they have no clue about Roma and have racist stereotypes.
An unusual production featuring Roma musicians from North Macedonia together with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre.
Another tale of prejudice. Unfortunately common. Less common is that they acknowledged it.
Commemoration of the Holocaust in the UN.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A strange story of the murder of 5 Roma from a single family in Bahia. One of the few stories one hears about Roma there.
A new book on a subject that is definitively not well known.
An article / radio on the presence of Roma in Oregon since the 1890’s
– As It Was: Roma, Also Known as Gypsies, Reach Oregon in 1890s. In: Jefferson Public Radio. 18.02.2019. https://www.ijpr.org/post/it-was-roma-also-known-gypsies-reach-oregon-1890s#stream/0 [link-preview url=”https://www.ijpr.org/post/it-was-roma-also-known-gypsies-reach-oregon-1890s#stream/0″]
A dance piece on Romnja by Belen Maya, the daughter of Mario Maya, one of the most influential Flamenco dancers.
– Sorrows and joys of Roma women told through dance. In: Kansas University. 31.01.2019. http://today.ku.edu/sorrows-and-joys-roma-women-told-through-dance [link-preview url=”http://today.ku.edu/sorrows-and-joys-roma-women-told-through-dance”]
No comments on such articles. They are really not what we need.
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– Hundreds visit her gravesite each year. The Queen of the Gypsies is Mississippi royalty. In: Mississippi Clarion Ledger. 31.01.2019. https://eu.clarionledger.com/story/life/2019/01/31/hundreds-visit-her-gravesite-each-year-queen-gypsies-mississippi-royalty/2582164002/ [link-preview url=”https://eu.clarionledger.com/story/life/2019/01/31/hundreds-visit-her-gravesite-each-year-queen-gypsies-mississippi-royalty/2582164002/”]
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