Roma musicians’ raspy voices and accordions make outsiders crave more

By Lia Tamborra

A night at Rubin with impromptu band, “Gypsy Apple Strudel” (Music by Vera Bila, photos by Vaclav Mares).

“Romale, chavale. Imar hin tosarla. Romale, chavale. Imar hin tosarla. Tosarla, tosarla, tosarla. E masina imar dzal, palo svetos roma phiren. Tosarla, tosarla, phiren. Phiren, phiren, phiren.”

(Roma people, white people. The sun is rising for us. Roma people, white people, the sun is rising for us. Rising, rising, rising. The train is coming. Roma travel through the world. The sun is rising for us, rising. They travel, travel, travel).

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Hlinsko's students parody the cruelty that surveys show is endemic among Czechs (Photo by Abbey Martin).

By Carolina Sanchez

There are beer bottles all over the floor, toys broken into pieces, and pink panties on fire fly in the air only to be put out by… beer.

“My House–My Castle” reads a banner that decorates the living room. It’s my third hour in this small Czech town, and I’m already witnessing the most disrespectful and racist family known to man. (more…)