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Review of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice By Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Viking, May 2022, 428 pages.
I PARTICIPATED IN the popular uprising for racial justice after George Floyd was murdered by a white Minneapolis cop on May 25, 2020. I (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Racist remarks by three member of the Los Angeles City Council and the head of the Los Angeles Federation of Labor—all Democrats—sent shock waves across the country and led to demands that the council members resign. Even President Biden, then about to make a campaign trip to California to (...)
, by MARONEY Eric
Review of Elite Capture. How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Haymarket, 2022
An oft-cited survey conducted by Monmouth University in the summer of 2020 cataloged substantial support for the Black Lives Matter Movement. At the time the survey was (...)
, by MIAH Malik
He was inspired by the racially-motivated massacre in New Zealand by right wing terrorist Brenton Tarrant in 2019 and white supremacists in the United States.
Federal officials said they are investigating the case as a racially-motivated hate crime.
Black people have known white terror for (...)
, by MIAH Malik
Following a deadlock on the Judiciary Committee, the United States Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 116th justice of the Supreme Court on April 7. Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the court since it was established 233 years ago.
The vote was 53 to 47, (...)
, by MIAH Malik
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc on February 9, accusing the company of entrenched racism in its Californian factory.
The DFEH’s lawsuit is a powerful indictment of racism at Tesla. Filed on behalf of more than 4000 former and (...)
, by MIAH Malik
Winning her second gold medal on February 18, 18-year-old Chinese-American Olympian Eileen Gu (also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing) is the first “action-sports” athlete to win three medals at the same Olympics.
“My name is Eileen Gu,” she told journalists, “and I’m the best half-pipe skier in (...)
, par SHEPPARD Barry
Three recent trials involving murderous white nationalists were occurring at the same time in the United States.
One was the Wisconsin trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who brought an automatic rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest of a police shooting of an African American that left him a (...)
, by MIAH Malik
It was expected. The judge was clearly on the side of teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, the white vigilante from Illinois.
Kyle Rittenhouse shot his victims while they protested for justice for Jacob Blake, who was paralysed from the waist down by a police shooting. Image: Wikimedia Commons
The 12 (...)
, par MUDDE Cas
Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes.
Kyle Rittenhouse – the armed white teenager whose mother drove him from Illinois to Wisconsin to allegedly “protect” local businesses from anti-racism protesters in Kenosha, whereupon he shot and killed two (...)
, par SHEPPARD Barry
November 2 gubernatorial race in Virginia : « It is clear that the current Democratic Party is not the answer to the racist and authoritarian Trump-controlled Republicans. »
One of the most closely watched elections on November 2 was the gubernatorial race in Virginia.
President Biden had (...)
, by LI Promise
The movement against anti-Asian violence must not become yet another bargaining chip between two repressive super powers.
Last month’s murders of Asian women massage workers in Atlanta marked another devastating milestone in a recent wave of anti-Asian violence fueled by pandemic racism and (...)
, by NGUYEN Viet Thanh
Anti-Asian racism is on the rise around the world. The Pulitzer-winning author reflects on his own experiences as a Vietnamese American – and the dark history that continues to fuel the current hate.
On 16 March eight people were killed in Atlanta, Georgia, by a 21-year-old white man: all but (...)
, by MIAH Malik
Twenty-one-year-old white man, Robert Aaron Long, bought a handgun on March 16, and went on a murder spree in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia.
Long killed eight people, including six Asian women, at three massage parlours. Their ages ranged from 33 to 74.
The next day, white county sheriff Jay (...)
, by MIAH Malik
IT TURNS OUT that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
The August 29 hurricane showed the world that the Bush administration’s so-called (...)
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