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...
BRUSSELS (AA) – All people fleeing the war in Ukraine should be allowed into the EU, regardless of their skin color, EU Commission said on Wednesday. Responding to a question on alleged racism against Africans at Ukraine’s western borders with EU countries, spokesperson Anitta Hipper said EU nations were “strongly committed t...
ANKARA (AA) – Several Africans attempting to flee Ukraine have claimed they experienced racist treatment at the border because of their race. Eswatini student Vkile Dlamini, who crossed to Romania from Ukraine, said that she undertook the most difficult journey of her life. “We were exposed to a lot of racism. Police pointed guns a...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement in response to reports that Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar spoke at a white nationalist event. The America First Political Action Conference in Orlando was organized by Nicholas Fuentes, a white-nationalist activist. Fuentes rose to prominence after attending th...
The Council on American Islamic Relations’ or CAIR’s Connecticut chapter is calling for a probe into a possible hate crime, involving two female Muslim students at the University of Connecticut. Junior Shazeda Khatun and senior Zena Saleh said a man screamed racial slurs at them, including the N-word, as they walked to their dorm Monday [&hell...
A total of 1,807 communal riot cases were registered in parts of India during 2018 to 2020 in which over 8,000 people were arrested, the Rajya Sabha learned Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the highest number of communal riot cases were registered in Bihar, followed by Maharashtra and Haryana. A […]
Three former Minneapolis police officers were found guilty of failing to render aid as they watched George Floyd get suffocated by former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin. Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao, and Thomas Lane were convicted on charges of not assisting Floyd as he died, and of violating his constitutional rights. Floyd’s murder in 2020...
Racial and religious prejudice increased significantly among former president Donald Trump’s supporters during his presidency, according to studies published Monday by the journal Nature Human Behavior. The 13 studies involved more than 10,000 participants. Researchers and social psychologists, Benjamin Ruisch of the University of Kent in the...
