MEXICO'S HIDDEN BLACKS

The first time I felt deeply uncomfortable being black was when I was a kid. My family had just moved to Alabama, and I was in a car with my father and my brother. A white woman with a harshly lined face and brown frizzy hair yelled out a racial slur as we drove by. Dad immediately put the car in reverse and drove over to her as she pumped gas at a filling station. READ MORE

Painting offers glimpse into Canada’s slave-owning past

MONTREAL — If a picture is worth a thousand words, a rare portrait of a slave woman hanging at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is an important statement about a rarely discussed aspect of Canada’s past. READ MORE

Brazil's Black Blocs and black gold

The weather has been pretty inclement in the south-eastern corner of Brazil over the last couple of weeks.

Temperatures fluctuate wildly from one day to the next. Dark clouds roll menacingly across the sky and we have had several consecutive days of heavy rain in Rio de Janeiro area.

As we move, moodily from one season into the next - there is a similarly dark, tempestuous mood on the streets. READ MORE