Browsing: Racism

Britain still lionises its war-time prime minister Winston Churchill who died on this day 24th January 1965 . He’s credited with being a driving force against…

According to Dr Ruth Wilson Gilmore, capitalism requires inequality to function, and racism enshrines that inequality. Or, as the great Pan-Africanist Malcolm X put it, ‘You…

Like others before him, Dominican Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Álvarez Gil tried whitewashing his country’s historical identity in an April 2024 interview with @aljazeera.…

When Africans are denied visas to Europe, there’s no doubt those decisions are often racist. But could they be capitalist too? African Stream’s Wambura Mwai looks…

The Belgian government is guilty of crimes against humanity! That was the ruling passed by the Brussels Court of Appeal in a case brought by five…

Eleven years ago today, anti-apartheid hero and South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela died. His life was devoted to fighting against the settler oppression…

It’s been over four years since police k*lled George Floyd, sparking an uprising that not only raised questions about racism and police brutality, but also on…

Narratives on the prison-industrial complex often revolve around the US and what civil-rights activist, attorney and author Michelle Alexander terms ‘the new Jim Crow.’ However, prisons-for-profit…

Black people in Ireland are facing worsening levels of racism, despite making up only 1.5% of the population. According to a March 2023 report by the…

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…