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IN APRIL, ColorLines reader Ana Alecia Lyman received back issues of the magazine. The Peace Corps volunteer was at a conference in Mozambique, where she works as an HIV/AIDS and Gender Programming Specialist. She shared the magazines with colleagues, and they quickly found themselves in conversations about how race and politics in the United States relate to global struggles for racial justice.

"In our respective Mozambican communities, keeping up with international and U.S. news is difficult," Lyman writes to us by email. "Opportunities for discussions on political and ethnic intersections or sexual identity are even harder to find. Here, the U.S. becomes 'Snoop Dogg' scribbled on a wall near my house, bootleg action DVDs and the faces of Bush and Bin Laden on capolanas [baby slings]."

"To borrow a Portuguese expression, we have saudades, or nostalgia, for these conversations," Lyman writes. "We miss them, as they are integral to our understanding of ourselves and serve to keep us in the discourse, from 10,000 miles away."

There are now issues of ColorLines on the island of Inhaca, in the city of Inhambane and all around the province of Manica. The magazine is also with the program's training director, a Mozambican woman who has worked all over the country and who commented: "This will sound like a ridiculous thing to say, but ColorLines is the first intelligent media dealing with race and class politics that I have ever seen from the States."

After the conference, several of Lyman's colleagues discussed how to incorporate ColorLines into their work "to help inspire a larger view of a heterogeneous U.S." As for Lyman, she writes that the magazine "will continue to serve as a reminder of what it means to be at the same time from the States and a citizen of a larger world."

In the months to come, we'd like to profile our readers who are putting media into action. If you're one, email us at [e-mail].