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Nizam Mamode, a retired British National Health Service transplant surgeon who worked in Gaza with the British charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), shocked UK MPs…

News reports say Black people—including children—in about half of the 50 US states recently received racist text messages stating that they had been ‘selected to pick…

Despite growing calls for reparations for slavery, the UK refuses to accept that it’s high time to pay up. So much is clear from recent remarks…

The mainstream media’s reporting on the recent attacks on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam has been criticised not only for failing to provide the full context…

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, recently summed up Israel’s 76-year occupation of Palestine as a ‘settler-colonial conflict’ and a g*nocide, not…

Every year since 1954, Veterans Day (11 November) has honoured military veterans who have served in the US armed forces. However, it is crucial to examine…

The failed Kamala Harris campaign wheeled out a string of Black celebrities to sway the community’s vote, which reminded us of this Malcolm X gem. As…

The portrayal of Scots as abolitionists and liberal champions hides a long history of Scottish profiting from the enslavement of Africans. The wealth accumulated from the…

How important is leadership? Will a great people under a lesser leader succumb to weaker forces led by someone great? We might want to take this…

On the 10th of November 1898, over 2,000 armed white people descended on Wilmington City Hall in the US state of North Carolina and forced Black…