Campaigners on behalf of one of Ireland’s most deprived ethnic minorities have claimed that the language used by President Donald Trump in the United States has emboldened far-right racist remarks ...

North Carolinian youth in Warren County lied on the ground in protest of the placement of a hazardous polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) laced landfill in their Black neighborhood. Screenshot by author.

Syndicalist Workers Federation report from 1964 on the Irish Traveller community in Cherry Orchard, Dublin, taking matters into their own hands to provide a school for their children. Tinker is an ...

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In the 1960s Alen MacWeeney photographed indigenous Irish nomads called the Travellers. Fifty years later his raw and gritty photos are a... Throughout my life I have regularly traveled to my mother's ...

He has a menacing shaved head, an 85-inch reach and a sneaky jab that lands like a sledgehammer. Though he stands 6 feet 9 inches, he moves with the agility of a smaller man and can switch from a ...

Irish Travellers, Ireland’s indigenous ethnic population, are rarely shown in movies. When they are — think Brad Pitt as the incomprehensible bare-knuckled boxer in Guy Ritchie’s Snatch (2000) — the ...

He has a menacing shaved head, an 85-inch reach and a sneaky jab that lands like a sledgehammer. Though he stands 6 feet 9 inches, he moves with the agility of a smaller man and can switch from a ...