‘Go back to where you came from’: US lawmaker Pramila Jayapal says she received threat messages

‘We cannot accept violence as our new norm,’ the Congresswoman of Indian origin wrote in a Twitter post sharing five abusive voicemails from a male caller.

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· Sep 10, 2022 · 01:05 pm

It wasn’t only Asians who suffered in Idi Amin’s ‘economic war’ – Uganda’s Africans did too

It was Africans, not Asians, who were the targets of the dictator’s larger economic campaign.

Derek R Peterson, The Conversation

· Aug 25, 2022 · 11:30 pm

French football legend Lilian Thuram tackles the scourge of white thinking with a book of his own

The book is an attempt to trace and examine the origins of white supremacy.

David Murphy, The Conversation

· Nov 10, 2021 · 06:30 pm

Facial recognition technology is biased with higher error rates against people of colour

The technology reflects and further entrenches long-standing social divisions.

Jane Bailey, The Conversation

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Valerie Steeves, The Conversation

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Jacquelyn Burkell, The Conversation

· Aug 27, 2020 · 11:30 pm

US: Yale University discriminates against whites and Asian-Americans, alleges justice department

The department threatened to file a lawsuit against the university if it refused to take ‘remedial measures’.

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· Aug 14, 2020 · 01:30 pm

UK: Sikh couple who were told they cannot adopt a white child win case against racial discrimination

The court awarded them nearly £120,000 (approximately Rs 1.12 crore) in damages.

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· Dec 08, 2019 · 08:44 am

Canada: Justin Trudeau apologises for wearing brownface makeup in Aladdin photo from 2001

The prime minister, who is running for re-election, said he did not consider the photo racist at that time, but ‘now we know better’.

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· Sep 19, 2019 · 01:04 pm

The celebration of Canada’s multiculturalism after Raptors’ NBA win masks the racism in the country

Black Canadians are still more likely to be incarcerated and face bias in the criminal justice system.

Corrie Scott, The Conversation

· Jun 19, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Jay-Z’s $200-million clothing battle could be a game changer for black lawyers the world over

If Mr Beyonce wins his argument that an arbitration clause should be struck down for lack of diversity, the barn door will be blown off the whole profession.

Gbenga Oduntan, The Conversation

· Dec 10, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Netflix sacks communications chief for using racial slur

The video-streaming firm’s Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings apologised for not acting sooner.

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· Jun 23, 2018 · 12:04 pm

Harvard rated Asian-American applicants lower on personality traits, claims lawsuit

The university refuted the findings, and said the percentage of such students actually grew 29% over the last decade.

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· Jun 17, 2018 · 12:05 pm

‘Broken system’: How US officials are using racial profiling to detect undocumented immigrants

And why they are getting away with it.

Kavitha Surana, Propublica

· Jun 16, 2018 · 09:30 pm