The Long Wave: Trinidad and Tobago carnival celebrates African roots

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Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. In our launch edition, I wrote about how one of the things I missed in the media landscape was the ability to simply meet others across the Black diaspora. In the months since, this newsletter has been that place for me, but never more so than this week, when I spoke to Natricia Duncan, our Caribbean correspondent, about this year’s carnival in Trinidad and Tobago.

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