Page 6 - Racism

2021: Dark clouds and silver linings

Fresh hopes on the economic, health and political front temper the grim legacy of 2020

US prosecutors decline to charge white police officer in shooting of Blake

Wisconsin prosecutors will not file charges against the white police officers involved in the shooting of African-American Jacob Black in the city of Kenosha

UEFA Champions League: PSG-Basaksehir to restart with new fourth official

The match between PSG and Istanbul Basaksehir was suspended as players from both team walked out after an alleged incident of racism involving the fourth official

Indian-origin peer Lord Meghnad Desai resigns from Labour Party over racism

The Labour Party has been plagued by allegations of antisemitism over the years, with its disastrous electoral defeat in the December 2019 election also linked to the crisis

Appeals court clears Harvard University of racial bias in admissions

A federal appeals in court upheld a district court decision clearing Harvard University of intentional discrimination against Asian American applicants.

In the world of online hate

Book review of CULTURE WARLORDS: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

US elections 2020: Joe Biden vows racial and economic justice efforts

Joe Biden is promising a sweeping effort for racial and economic justice if he's elected president

US Presidential elections 2020: No place for hate in America, says Biden

Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden said there is no place for hate in America and the country can have both law and order and racial justice

A film festival turns a well-timed spotlight on black voices in cinema

Protests, demonstrations - and sometimes, violent rioting and looting - have dominated headlines even through the Covid-19 pandemic

Caste, American style

Book review of Caste: The lies that Divide Us

The US reckoning on racial injustice, seen through other nations' eyes

It's not only in the United States where protests against racial injustice are part of the national conversation

Protesters did not even spare statue of Mahatma Gandhi: Donald Trump

Donald Trump has said that protesters did not spare even the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Washington DC, describing the demonstrators as a "bunch of thugs"

US health promoters deepen efforts to test Covid vaccines in diverse groups

Many thousands of volunteers from minority groups are needed for huge clinical trials underway or about to begin

Eng vs Aus: Langer regrets not discussing Australia's BLM stance more

Australia cricket coach Justin Langer regrets there were not more conversations among the squad about taking a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement before matches

US democratic indicators plummet amid racial protests, Covid-19 pandemic

During the first two years of Bright Line Watch expert surveys, from February 2017 to March 2019, average scores were generally in the high 60s on a 0-100 scale

US elections: Kamala Harris meets Blake family to kick off Wisconsin visit

Kamala Harris met with the family of a Wisconsin man shot by police last month to kick off her visit to the critical swing state

We do have two systems of justice in America, says Kamala Harris

The strong criticism from Harris, the first Black and Indian-American woman on a major party vice presidential ticket came less than two months before the US presidential election

Donald Trump targets 'white privilege' training as 'anti-American'

President Donald Trump has directed the Office of Management and Budget to crack down on federal agencies' anti-racism training sessions, calling them divisive, anti-American propaganda.

High cost of presidential racism: Tapes reveal Nixon's hatred for Indians

Recently declassified White House tapes reveal how President Nixon's racism and misogyny led him to ignore the genocidal violence of the Pakistani military in what is today Bangladesh

Donald Trump visits Kenosha, calls violence 'domestic terrorism'

Trump charged into the latest eruption in the nation's reckoning over racial injustice, blaming domestic terror" that he said fuelled the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin