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The Black Archives' co-founder Mitchell Esajas recently wrote an article on the history of the emancipation of Sranantongo, the lingua franca in Surinam that's also being used by youth in Holland. 

Head over to One World for the article. (Dutch only)

A call for help from Amsterdam: our homeless need decent shoes.

 Amsterdam’s homeless walk a lot, for large parts of the day, and often the night as well. In many places, it’s not allowed to linger; running the risk of getting fined and turned away, they are forced to stay moving constantly. Many of them live like this, in shoes that are too small and too narrow. 

The Central Bureau for Statistics recently published that the number of people without a steady place to stay...