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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nesrine Malik

Welcome to The Long Wave: ‘The Black diaspora is like a large, sprawling family’

The Long Wave collage includes images of James Baldwin, Tyla, Malcom X, Marcus Garvey and Mia Mottley
From Europe to Africa and the Americas to the Caribbean, we will be exploring hot topics that are so often contained to the group chat. Illustration: Dakarai Akil/The Guardian

Hello and welcome to the first edition of our new weekly newsletter dedicated to Black life and culture around the world. I’m Nesrine, and I’m excited to bring you all the best stories, features and reports from the diaspora. For our first issue, I want to tell you about how The Long Wave came about, for which I’ll be taking you way back to my childhood in Sudan. But first, here’s our roundup of top stories.

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