April 8 is known as International Romani Day, marking Romani communities’ survival and resistance through centuries of persecution. The date commemorates a historic meeting of activists in 1971 ...
I grew up along Romania’s Black Sea coast. My father was the first in his family to graduate from university, and my mother went to a vocational school. Being educated was unusual in our Romani ...
There is a need for teachers of the Romani language, and large areas of the minority’s history and status remain unstudied. In 2012, the University launched efforts to change this. The Roma have lived ...
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Members of a class of 12 Roma children segregated in a separate school in Beverly, Massachusetts on January 26, 1937 [File: AP/FOX] In 1939, amid the Great Depression, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt met ...
Gabriela Hrabaňová, director of the European Roma Grassroots Organisations (ERGO) Network and past director of the Secretariat for the Czech Government Council for Roma Minority Affairs, is responding ...
The European Free Alliance (EFA) has called on the European Union to begin systematically addressing the security of Romani ...
The Romani community suffers from discrimination in access to education, housing, and the labour market in Czechia. Nine out of ten respondents to a recent online questionnaire believe Roma people are ...
Europe's largest minority group, the Romani, migrated from northwest India 1,500 years ago, new genetic study finds. The Romani, also known as the Roma, were originally dubbed "gypsies " in the 16th ...