HOUSTON, Texas – Eighty-year-old Helen Lewis Johnson is an African American historian for the Black Heritage Society. He remembers the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968 as if it were yesterday. “I was enjoying being home with my four children while on a spring break…when the […]...
BERLIN (AA) – More than 30 years after a deadly arson attack on a refugee shelter in western Germany, authorities arrested a former leading neo-Nazi figure on Monday. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that a new investigation has revealed that right-wing extremist Peter S. carried out the racist attack on the refugee [&...
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation finally making lynchings a federal hate crime It ends more than a century of delays in outlawing the symbol of what Biden calls “pure terror.” Anyone convicted under the new law will face up to 30 years in prison. Researchers say there were thousands of […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has sanctioned five individuals and five entities in Myanmar over “genocide” of its Rohingya population. Those designated include Myanmar’s 66th Light Infantry Division, including its leaders Brigadier-General Ko Ko Oo, and and Major-General Zaw Hein. Three individuals identified as arms dealers...
A man suspected of killing a maintenance worker at the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Florida on Thursday is in the hospital, after being shot several times by deputies. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma initially said the suspect, 38-year-old Ahmed Raslan, and the victim, an unnamed 59-year-old man, were coworkers at the center. Inves...
LONDON (AA) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has told Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate that his country wants to be “independent.” William, second in line to the British throne, and his wife are currently on a weeklong tour of the Caribbean, a trip dogged by public protests calling for reparations for slavery […]...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday marked the sixth anniversary of the guilty verdict against ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1990s Bosnia war. Karadzic, who spearheaded the most severe war crimes committed in Europe since World War II, was sentenced to 4...
VIENNA – Austria saw a total of 1,977 racist attacks in 2021, according to a new report. Over half of these took place online. The Vienna-based Civil Courage and Anti-Racism Work (ZARA) said in its 2021 Racism Report that some 1,117 racist posts were shared on social media and other online platforms. There were 273 […]
Demonstrators gather outside the BBC Broadcasting House ahead of a march to oppose racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism and fascism, and to express support for refugees as part of United Nations Anti-Racism Day in London, United Kingdom on March 19, 2022. The campaigners call for action to eradicate institutional racism in response to police str...
A growing number of Asian-American women across the Unites States are speaking out about their experiences with racism and anti-Asian violence. The number of reported hate crimes and racist incidents has increased nationwide, according to statistics from advocacy groups. Protests are expected across the country against the rising racism and di...
