A young, unarmed black man was shot 20 times in his grandmother’s backyard in California. Now his brother is fighting through grief to demand justice. “They gunned him down like a dog,” Stevante Clark said of the police shooting of his brother, Stephon. “They executed him.” Stevante was in the back seat of a car, …
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National Geographic acknowledged that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and unintelligent. “We had to own our story to move beyond it,” editor-in-chief Susan Goldberg told The Associated Press in an interview about the yellow-bordered magazine’s April …
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A woman launched a disgusting racist verbal attack on an Indian woman sitting alone on a train was captured on camera. The footage was uploaded on social media after a fellow passenger became outraged over the incident. Patricia Bonnar shared the clip which took place while she was travelling on the metro with some friends …
Thousands of African men who could be given a choice by the Israeli government: Take $3,500 to relocate to an unnamed “third country” — widely reported to be Uganda or Rwanda — go back to their home country, or go to jail. Israel began handing out the first deportation orders to Africans earlier this year. …
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Linda Brown, 76, whose father objected when she was not allowed to attend an all-white school in her neighborhood. She came to symbolize one of the most transformative court proceedings in American history, the school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, died in Topeka, Kan. Her death was confirmed by a spokesman for the Peaceful …
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Refugees and refugee homes are still attacked nearly every day in Germany but the figures dropped significantly last year. The German government counted 2,219 attacks on refugees and their homes in 2017. According to an Interior Ministry answer to an official parliamentary information request, the attacks broke down into 1,906 attacks on refugees and 313 on homes, …
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French investigators are treating the killing of an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris as an antisemitic murder, after it emerged that she had survived France’s most notorious second world war round up of Jews in 1942. Mireille Knoll lived alone and was found dead after a fire broke out in her flat in Paris’s 11th …
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Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians during the month of February, bringing the total number of Palestinians slain this year to 16. Four of the Palestinians killed in February were slain during search and arrest operations. Ahmad Samir Mahmoud Abu Ubeid, 18, was shot in the head while confronting soldiers during a raid in pursuit of Ahmad Nasser …
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A Russian airline forced five Asian-American passengers to fly to Delhi instead of New York because of their skin colour, according to a racial discrimination complaint. Aeroflot staff warned the US citizens, all of south Asian descent, they would be “deported” to India if they refused to board the flight. The Americans were travelling from Delhi to the US on 7 …
An Israeli mayor pulled out of a speech to students visiting Poland after he was told to omit passages that could contravene the country’s new law on Holocaust responsibility. Eli Dukorsky, the mayor of Kiryat Bialik in northern Israel, said he had planned to mention the Jews who were murdered by Poles during the Holocaust in his speech, a joint appearance with the local Polish mayor. But he cancelled after being told by officials that his speech …
