racism
The Confronting Anti-Black Racism Advisory Committee established by City Council helps to further advance the objectives of the Toronto Action Plan to Confronting Anti-Black Racism. You can follow the issues and priorities the Advisory Committee will address on the Toronto City Council and Committees Meetings, Agendas and Minutes web page. Below are brief biographies for […]
(CNN) An international coalition of activists and human rights attorneys on Wednesday announced they filed an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of African refugees facing racial discrimination in Ukraine and Poland. The filing follows numerous reports from Black refugees who said they faced segregation, racism and abuse as they tried to flee for […]
Writing in the Daily Beast, Chicago-born and New Jersey-raised Black, 52, paints a picture of America as ‘a war machine sponsored by Ronald McDonald’ Black says America is such a ‘dysfunctional mess’ that he doesn’t believe the results of the 2024 election will make a difference either way It comes 12 years after he co-wrote […]
Rick Diamond/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Darius Rucker, Mickey Guyton and more Black country artists have been candid about the racism they have faced in the genre. When Rucker made the transition from the frontman for the rock band Hootie and the Blowfish to country superstar . . .
A Minnesota college scholarship named after George Floyd and only available to black students sparked a complaint with the US Department of Education as one critic called it “racism.” North Central University’s exclusion of non-black students is “insidious discrimination on the basis of race, color and national original,” according to the complaint from the conservative […]
US News By Carl Campanile Published March 27, 2024, 4:47 p.m. ET A Minnesota college scholarship named after George Floyd and only available to black students sparked a complaint with the US Department of Education as one critic called it “racism.” North Central University’s exclusion of non-black students is “insidious discrimination on the basis of […]
Despite efforts to prevent discrimination in the US, UK, and EU countries, institutional and individual racism continues to rise. While rapid changes in the economic and social spheres in recent years have triggered discrimination against foreigners, people from different ethnic groups say they face discrimination in their countries despite being citizens. Since 1966, March 21 […]
ISTANBUL Despite efforts to prevent discrimination in the US, UK, and EU countries, institutional and individual racism continues to rise. While rapid changes in the economic and social spheres in recent years have triggered discrimination against foreigners, people from different ethnic groups say they face discrimination in their countries despite being citizens. Since 1966, March […]
CNN — San Francisco this week formally apologized to its Black residents and their descendants for decades of systemic and structural discrimination, targeted acts of violence and atrocities. On Tuesday, during the last week of Black History Month, the 11 members of the city’s Board . . .
On June 13, 2020, Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to call for the eradication of racism and white supremacy. With their fists raised high, the activists, mostly dressed in black, chanted, “Black power!” Were it not for the face masks, which they wore to help stop the spread of COVID-19, […]