Back in February, Jen and Derrick Teal of A Year in the Czech Republic visited the Museum of Romani Culture in Brno, located in the city's Roma neighborhood: “Suddenly, almost everyone we passed had the darker skin tone of many Roma Czechs and the fairer-skinned Czechs seemed to have disappeared, and sadly, the buildings and streets were in considerably worse disrepair, an unfortunate sign of the modern difficulties faced by the Roma people in this, and other, countries.”