A Chatham County woman said her son experienced a “slave auction” last week at J.S. Waters school in Goldston, North Carolina. A group of white students at the school reportedly auctioned off Black students for money, with one student playing the role of “slavemaster.” The mother said she had a video of students “harmonizing racial […...
PARIS (AA) – French security services saw a surge in the number of racist, xenophobic, and anti-religious offenses, the Interior Ministry has admitted. The analysis of the racist offenses was prepared by the ministry’s statistical service for internal security and released ahead of March 21, International Day for the Elimination of Racia...
ANKARA (AA) – A Dutch lawmaker has called for space to be made for “real refugees from Ukraine” and for those “who have no right to stay” to be returned. In an opinion piece published on Monday by the Dutch weekly EW Magazine, Ruben Brekelmans said his party, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy [&he...
Poland is welcoming Ukrainians fleeing the war in sharp contrast to its treatment of previous waves of refugees from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. In 2021, Poland aggressively stopped refugees on the Belarusian border. Now, Polish men and women have been traveling to the border in private cars to offer rides to refugees. Meanwhile, European Un...
Spain’s Interior Ministry denied wrongdoing Friday after a viral video showing several Spanish agents beating a young African migrant who crossed the border into the city of Melilla. The video was captured by Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE. It shows a young man, possibly a minor, slowly climbing down the border fence separating Spain’s Africa...
A university in Munich, Germany has apologized publicly to two Muslim women students for discriminatory practices during online exams. The incidents sparked widespread criticism on social media, prompting the apology. HM Hochschule Munchen HOT SCHOOL MEWNCHIN said on Twitter “it offered sincere apologies” to the students who were asked by inst...
A new U.N. report calls on Canada to amend legislation that potentially strips “tens of thousands” of Indigenous women of Indian status for marrying non-Indigenous men. While Indigenous women lose their status under Canada’s Indian Act, which was passed in 1876, their children cannot inherit their mother’s heritage status. Indigeno...
BRUSSELS (AA) – All people fleeing the war in Ukraine should be allowed into the EU, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or skin color, an EU Commission spokesperson said on Wednesday. Responding to a question on alleged racism against Africans at Ukraine’s western borders with EU countries, spokesperson Anitta Hipper said ...
The European Union offered immediate protection status to millions of Ukrainian nationals and long-term residents seeking refuge in the EU as of Feb. 24. But nearly everyone else, such as foreign students from Africa in Ukraine, is not covered. Some foreign students say they have watched as Ukrainian pets crossed the border to safety, while [&...
TERNTON, Canada (AA) – A new UN report calls on Canada to amend a law that has stripped Indigenous women of Indian status because they married non-Indigenous men. Yet, while the women lose their status under Canada’s Indian Act, passed in 1876, and therefore their children cannot inherit their mother’s heritage status, Indige...
