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Exclusive: rampant anti-Asian hate in 2024 reflected divisive election season, survey findsAsian Americans and Pacific Islanders faced chilling levels of hate in 2024, a new survey has found, reflecting the impact of a divisive presidential election ye…
Researchers question characterisation of unrest as ‘far-right protests’ and say disorder had more in common with race riotsThe riots that swept the UK last summer had more in common with race riots in the 1950s in Nottingham and in Notting Hill, west L…
Artists and legal experts are outraged over MC Poze do Rodo’s detention over supposed non-violent offencesThe arrest of a well-known Brazilian funk singer on charges of allegedly inciting crime in his lyrics and an alleged connection to a major crimina…
Remains dating back to late 18th century are being repatriated and interred, with commemoration and jazz funeralIn the late 1800s, 19 Black New Orleanians’ heads were dismembered and shipped to Leipzig University in Germany for research. The 19 had die…
Through her book, Painting the Cosmos, and her non-profit, Onaketa, Dr Nia Imara hopes to introduce underserved youth to the sciencesWhen practicing funeral ceremonies during the antebellum period, enslaved west Africans mimicked the sun’s rotation as …
Winsome Earle-Sears called abortion ‘genocide’ and implied equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancyThe Republican nominee for governor of Virginia has recently tried to distance herself from her long-standing, hardline anti-abo…
Black Panther actor tells of deep sense of responsibility when making directorial debut about effects of knife crimeThe actor Letitia Wright has spoken about the “huge burden” of representation for black film-makers telling stories about black lives, a…
Industry figures say conditions are worse now than before the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020Black British TV makers are “fighting over scraps” because of the lack of opportunities, industry figures have said, arguing that conditions are worse now …
British business figures say many companies in UK and US disguising inclusion policies in face of rightwing attacksCorporate diversity policies are under fire from the right – but also from the leftSenior figures in British business have described a ch…
Leftwingers say the shallow initiatives that now define DEI have diluted more radical attempts to achieve equalityFirms ‘rebranding’ diversity initiatives to avoid unwanted political attentionDiversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have come …