Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
At an OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Roma issues in November 2013, Nathan Mick, who is Romani American, delivered the U.S. delegation's intervention and participated in working sessions on improving respect for the rights of Romani people. Another American Roma Dr. Ethel Brooks served as a moderator at this same event; she also ...
The Romanichal (UK: / ˈ r ɒ m ə n ɪ tʃ æ l / US: /-n i-/; more commonly known as English Gypsies) are a Romani subgroup within the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world. Many Romanichal speak Angloromani , a mixed language that blends Romani vocabulary with English syntax.
In Britain, many Roma proudly identify as "Gypsies", [93] and, as part of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller grouping, this is the name used to describe all para-Romani groups in official contexts. [125] In North America, the word Gypsy is most commonly used as a reference to Romani ethnicity, though lifestyle and fashion are at times also ...
A Mysterious People by Charles Duff – A guide to Romani culture including the Romani groups of Britain. West with the Tinkers by Cledwyn Hughes – A journey through Wales with British Romani gypsies. Gypsy Folk Tales by Francis Hinds Groom – A story based on the lovell Romani family who travel to Wales.
Nettie Stanley - matriarch of the family starring in the TLC reality television series "Gypsy Sisters" Tracey Ullman - actress; Cecilia Woloch - poet [16] Yul Brynner - Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a Romanian Roma [17] Glenda Bailey-Mershon - writer [16]
Episode 1: "The G-Word." In the fall of 2019, reporter Faith E. Pinho received a tip from Paulina Stevens. Paulina said she had grown up in an insular Romani community in California, where she was ...
Häns'che Weiss, famous for his Gypsy jazz style, won the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis Hüsnü Şenlendirici – Turkish musician Ion Voicu (1923–1997) – Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor, founder of Bucharest Chamber Orchestra
There is a sizable Romani minority in Romania, known as Ţigani in Romanian and, recently, as Rromi, of 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population (2011 census), although the Council of Europe estimates the figure to be 1.85 million people or 8.32% of the population. [127]