Racism
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Officer ‘mistook handgun for taser’ in fatal US shooting of black man Daunte Wright
The policewoman who fatally shot a 20-year-old black man in a Minneapolis suburb accidentally confused her handgun with her taser,…
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Myth of meritocracy casts Australia in a new light
New York Times journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s assessment of US culture is a devastating critique of the land of the free. Tim…
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Boris Johnson’s most senior black adviser quits as race report provokes backlash
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s most senior black adviser has quit, Downing Street said Thursday, a day after a government-commissioned report…
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‘Go back to your s—hole country’: the high cost of standing out, speaking up
I have watched this movement with anger that it took this long for women to be heard; with pride that…
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Freedom From Racial Discrimination is a Right, Not a Privilege
Geneva – In marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the United Nations Network on Migration calls on…
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U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield gives powerful speech at U.N.: “I know the ugly face of racism”
“I am a descendant of slaves. My great grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave.…
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Why can’t Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill?
Αbaleful silence attends one of the most talked-about figures in British history. You may enthuse endlessly about Winston Churchill “single-handedly”…
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Australia on the brink of deciding what it can become
These are traditional hymns – the kinds of spiritual and psychological memories that are often the only things a refugee…
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Minneapolis has agreed to pay $27 million to settle family lawsuit over George Floyd’s death
The family of George Floyd, the Black man who died while being arrested by a white police officer in Minneapolis,…
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Second white person removed from translating Amanda Gorman poem
The move by Barcelona publisher Univers marks the second instance of backlash in Europe against a white person being chosen…
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Black Lives Matter activists return to the streets as George Floyd murder trial begins
The family of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter activists rallied this weekend ahead of the trial for the police…
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Revisiting reparations: Is it time for the US to pay its debt for the legacy of slavery?
On March 1, Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, suggested the White House could “start acting now”…
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French minister defends ‘Islamo-leftism’ inquiry
French Minister for Higher Education and Research Frédérique Vidal today defended her probe into the influence of postcolonial studies and…
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Racists tried to ban this book. How ironic that Ireland might now shun it
To Kill a Mockingbird is part of many Irish childhoods. Should it supply moral instruction? Niamh Mulvey The Irish Times…
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Ireland’s Varadkar accuses Sinn Féin of defending homophobia, racism, sexism
DUBLIN — Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has accused the main opposition Sinn Féin party of defending homophobic, sexist…
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Violence erupts in Paris in second weekend of protests over controversial new security law
Violence erupted in Paris on Saturday for the second consecutive weekend at a mass protest against a new security law,…
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