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Beautiful Black Women, Men, Friends, and Family. Get ready for an all-day celebration of sisterhood, empowerment, and growth! Our official launch event on June 24th will be a day focused on connecting, healing, growing, and thriving together. Join us at the heart of Zurich for an exciting day filled with workshops, panels, networking opportunities, and more.

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The 3rd edition of the Black Film Festival Zurich
from June 16 to 18 at the Houdini Cinema in Zurich.

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Henri-Michel Yéré's new book of poems, written in Nouchi and French, intertwines past, present, and future, showing that poetry can transcend the linearity of time and multiply our visions. Drawing from both languages, the poems respond to but do not resemble each other. The desolation of existence is countered by the collection with a certainty: When there is dialogue, all loneliness eventually disappears.

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See you at our event
27-05-2023, 16:30
Planet5, Zurich

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Friday, 26.5.2023, 14:30 Uhr
Predigergasse 3, 3011 Bern

Drag Story Time is a celebration of joy and discovery for children ages 3 to 8. Led by children's educator Brandy Butler and with the help of local drag performers*, books are used to build self-esteem, celebrate individuality, and promote tolerance. We read, dance, sing and dress up to playfully create a stage where children and their families can celebrate diversity in society and themselves.

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Today's quilombo of Helvécia in Bahia emerged from the struggle for freedom against the German-Swiss colony of Leopoldina starting in the mid-19th century.

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The Association Against the War in Sudan is organizing this rally with the aim of publicizing the disastrous conditions and suffering of uninvolved civilians.

HUMBUG, Klybeckstrasse 241/K104, Basel, Switzerland
Bilingual reading from the book Knowing Women by Serena O. Dankwa with Josephine E. Agbenozan. With Soli-Afterparty

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It's Friday and therefore time for our acoustic column, the RaBe Radioblog. Today Mohamed Wa Baile talks about Helvetzide - people affected by racism who have died in Swiss asylum centers and in police custody.

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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is pleased to announce that the first session of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent will take place from 5 to 8 December 2022 in Palais des Nations of the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland.

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30.11.2022, 19:30, House of Religions - Dialogue of Cultures
By and with People of Color to promote and represent diversity in the spoken word scene.

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09.11.2022, 19:30, Turnhalle at PROGR
Acid, punk, trap: Mykki Blanco is washed in many waters. Launched over 10 years ago as a video art project in the vein of Lil Kim's "Kimmy Blanco". Mykki Blanco quickly grew into a vibrant and almost limitless talent. Poetry, performance, activism and, of course, outrageous and daring rap make Blanco a sought-after role model - even off the concert stage.

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Eco-Friendly-Afro-futuristic-Punk. 
Sun 30 Oct | Door 7.30 pm | bee-flat at PROGR

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The Brazilian-Swiss artist Eva De Souza was a resident at the anti-racist community center "Living Room" in Bern in October. De Souza embroiders to process experiences of violence. By stitching stories onto fabric, she laments against a society that accepts violence as part of itself.

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O-Platz turns 10 - Migration construction site
10 years ago the Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg and later also the Gerhart-Hauptmann School in Ohlauer Straße were occupied. To mark this anniversary, we want to gather at Oranienplatz from 5.10.-9.10. and celebrate the history of the rebellious refugee movement.

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This panel brings together four contemporary artists whose research and artistic practice puts them at the forefront of decolonial thinking. 

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04.10.2022, 12:00 - 13:30 (EDT), Online
The summer of 2020 saw the largest black-led protests in UK history. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets across Britain, primarily focused on the ongoing problem of police racism. Britain had not seen black-led protests on this scale since the early 1980s, and this talk by Adam Elliott-Cooper examines some of the impediments to radical black action and thought during that thirty year period. 

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03.10.2022, 10.10.2022, 17.10.2022, 19.10.2022, Online
The First-Year Writing department at Lang hosts a series of weekly dynamic and interactive lessons in the craft of writing on Mondays during "lunch-time".

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14:00h – 19:00 Messe, Kaserne, Basel

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29.09.2022, 19:00, Online
Speaker Marianne Chbat, PHD, answers nine questions to demystify and better understand the realities of BIPOC LGBTQ2+ families.

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Musical-scenic performance by GROUP50:50, a collective of artists from Congo, Switzerland and Germany.
29.09.2022 | 20:00 | Kaserne Basel, Reithalle, Klybeckstrasse 1b, 4057 Base

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Samstag: 24.09.2020 - 16:00 - 18:00 // Moserstrasse 30, 3014 Bern
With the elections in Brazil approaching, the new artist in community Eva de Souza Besetzt das Livingroom. Eva de Souza thematisiert Verbrechen und (politische) Gewalt durch Textilkunst und Stickereien.

Saturday: 24.09.2020 - 18:00 // Moserstrasse 30, 3014 Bern
With the elections in Brazil approaching, Livingroom in partnership with Coletivo Taoca invites to this Brazilian film screening. The film Partida (PT/EN), follows a group of friends who want to overcome the disappointment of Jair Bolsonaro's election as president through political engagement.

OHCHR is in a position to provide financial assistance to a select number of civil society representatives planning to participate in-person in the Permanent Forum’s first session. Civil society representatives who wish to apply for this support are requested to send their application package, in a single e-mail, to , by 10 October 2022.

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Friday: 23.09.2020 - Open doors 19:00 // Film 20:00 // Moserstrasse 30, 3014 Bern
With the elections in Brazil approaching, Livingroom in partnership with Coletivo Taoca invites to this Brazilian film screenings and welcomes the new artist in community Eva de Souza. The film Medida Provisória (PT/EN), is a dystopia about racism in Brazil. The film is an adaptation of a play that includes historical and recent facts about Brazil.

Homage to the Black Man
Das Thema zur African Fashion Night 2022 in Zürich

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Cultural scientist Jovita Pinto finds the uproar over the cancelled concert at Brasserie Lorraine is wrong. White people did not suffer from racism.

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Form different groups of over 50 people each in different cities to meet once a week locally to police the police by observing controls and documenting them.

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Please join us for a screening and discussion of Rafiki, award winning 2018 film directed by Wanuri Kahiu.

OHCHR Statement to the media by the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, on the conclusion of its official visit to Switzerland.

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"Take it easy," the railroad worker said to Nzoy. "Sit down." Then the police came running. In Morges, the police shoot a black man. Afterward, they say skin color didn't matter. But the officers' radio transmissions tell a different story. The reconstruction of a fatal police operation.

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NEW POLICE HOMICIDE IN MORGES, AFTER BEX, ETC.
PRESS RELEASE, SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
CRAN - Crossroads of Reflection and Action Against Anti-Black Racism
Observatory of Anti-Black Racism in Switzerland

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SSOA presents the digital archive with the motto: Black Representation Matters! Contributions of Black people in the fields of politics, culture, literature and art are recorded, as well as Black history in Switzerland documented and thus made accessible.

An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us!

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We are angry and grieve for those who have lost their lives to racist police violence around the world. We mourn not only for the many people who were killed in other countries, like Achidi John, Laya-Alama Condé, Ndeye Marieme Sarr, Christy Schwundeck, Yaya Jabbie or Amad Ahmad and Oury Jalloh in Germany. We also mourn those people who were killed by racist violence in Switzerland.

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Join us for a screening of the multi award-winning film Black Panther in Reitschule Bern on 01.05.2021 at 14:00

SSOA presents the digital archive with the motto: Black Representation Matters! Contributions of Black people in the fields of politics, culture, literature and art are recorded, as well as Black history in Switzerland documented and thus made accessible.

BiblioTalk: "Black Feminism as Reconstruction of the World" with Vanessa Thompson.

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For the first time, a broad public denounces structurally anchored racism in Switzerland - and dispels Helvetic myths.

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In an open letter, more than 50 Black artists* and cultural workers who are professionally active in Switzerland call on Swiss art institutions and organizations to translate their symbolic gestures on social media against structural discrimination towards Black people into concrete commitments in their own institutions.

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The city of Bern should use the opportunity to send an explicit signal against racism and remove the entire mural immediately.

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It is through the work of anti-racist organizers who brought to light this racist violence and took action to remove this trash, that we can now celebrate.

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Lamin Fatty, a 23 year-old Gambian asylum seeker was arrested by the Swiss police on Sunday and he was found dead in a police cell in Blecherette in Laussane, Switzerland on Tuesday.

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