In the US, camera phones increasingly expose racism
From the death of a black man in Minneapolis to a racist incident in Central Park, camera phones are increasingly being used as a weapon against racism even when justice…
Racism in Cuba: banned by law, alive on the streets
Six decades on from Cuba’s proclamation of equality and despite three top government officials being black, the Caribbean island nation has made little headway on racism. “Racism in Cuba is…
Guns and racism
Justice and accountability has prevailed in a fractured land with a long, tortured history of racism and too much fondness for guns. Disaster can strike when you put the two…
Systemic racism
On September 22, The Hague District Court finally reached a verdict on [Mpanzu] Bamenga’s case. ‘Ethnicity does not have to be an objective indication of nationality, but it could be,’…
Systemic racism
Many pro-migration activists have pointed out that for all his talk of human rights and pro-migration policies, President Joe Biden has proven no different from his predecessors in his cruel…
Sports and racism
It has been over a week since the final of the UEFA EURO 2020, a tournament that will go down in history for its amazing goals and historic matches. My…
Systemic racism
Juneteenth, a blend of June and 19th, commemorates the US abolition of slavery under President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, belatedly announced by a Union army general in Galveston, Texas,…
Global racism
The notion that the Covid-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’ should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions…
Outrageous racism
“Let’s feed a Bedouin. Don’t you want to feed a Bedouin?” Israeli Children TV host, Roy Oz, repeatedly asks his children, who were seated in the back seat of his…
Systemic racism
Donald Trump decided to relaunch his presidential campaign in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 19th, 2020. June 19, also known as Juneteenth, celebrates the end of slavery in America, about 150…
