Alex Park

2 months ago | africasacountry.com | Faisal Ali |Dean Clay |Alex Park |Nicholas Barber

As of April 9, 2025, US President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on higher tariffs for over 75 countries, reducing them to a baseline 10% rate, while excluding China, which now faces a sharply increased tariff of 125%. This pause, set to expire on July 4, 2025, offers a temporary reprieve for many nations, allowing for negotiations and potentially stabilizing global markets, although the long-term implications and outcomes remain uncertain.

Mar 10, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Alex Park |Faeeza Ballim |Marta Tveit

In her graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, scholar and activist Rebecca Hall shifts the narrative of the transatlantic slave trade, highlighting the power of women during these times. Hall argues that the truth about women-led resistance to the slave trade has been hidden at the whims of the patriarchy.

Feb 11, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Kathryn Mathers |Alex Park |Caitlin L Chandler

Why am I disgusted by the Trump administration’s pause on USAID projects and funds? Humanitarian aid has always been part of a neocolonial project, and I have spent decades critiquing the work it does in Africa, especially how it produces a kind of imagined Africa and propagates a set of ideas about what the continent needs (see my book White Saviorism and Popular Culture and the forthcoming documentary When I Say Africa).

Nov 4, 2024 | dbrnews.com | Alex Park

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Nov 1, 2024 | monroecountyherald.com | Alex Park

Posted 11/1/24Economic Hardship Reporting Project and TIME cover the changing political and societal perception of fast food jobs from presidential candidates and past presidents alike. This item is available in full to subscribers.