6/ "Mine is a name with a story from afar, that doesn’t have to be told, that is not often misspelt and that doesn’… https://t.co/F47tepvsxY

5/ "Caught between the weight of British colonial history and the might of American economic and cultural hegemony,… https://t.co/hzD322yg44

4/ "My mother always said she wanted to be buried in Barbados, not 'this cold place." She never made it to 50. But… https://t.co/MZtbdWupqs

3/ "The country had my name on it: I was called Gary after Garfield Sobers, the nation’s imposing cricketer. [But w… https://t.co/pvWHhx3ovm

2/ "[Becoming] a republic.. is an assertion that it must be available to every Barbadian boy & girl to aspire to be… https://t.co/JQegnacL7w

1/ Tonight Barbados, the country in which both my parents were born, is set to become a republic. Here's a couple o… https://t.co/iIqQ6ANiTb

RT @ChrisBurkeShay: Tomorrow Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Panthéon https://t.co/aSLUeNzhpC "In the white French gaze, Black Am…

RT @MsJeanRhys: Give me another drink, will you, honey? And put only one cube in it.

RT @BMoon_bee: «Aujourd'hui, le mélange toxique d'extrémistes d'extrême droite, de fondamentalistes laïques et le déni racial sous couvert…

"All that's left of the space African Americans once occupied in Paris is the memory of it. And it's this, along wi… https://t.co/Fx8z8pyJBl