Anti-racism consultant expresses stress the need for a cultural change within the police and importance of holding individual officers accountable for their actions OTTAWA, Canada – The Human Rights Tribunal of the Canadian province of Alberta recently ruled that police in the capital city of Edmonton had discriminated against two Black ...
GENEVA (AA) – People of African descent are still facing “immense challenges” in participating meaningfully in public affairs in many countries due to “systemic racism, marginalization and exclusion often rooted in the legacies of enslavement and colonialism,” says a report released by the UN Human Rights Office. ...
Jones criticized Republicans for their ‘authoritarianism’ after they applied the chamber’s recently implemented rules to silence him NASHVILLE, Tennessee – The Republican-controlled Tennessee House of Representatives on Monday cut off Democratic Rep. Justin Jones from speaking for the rest of the day. Jones criticized Republicans f...
Rising hate crimes, weak gun control laws fueling epidemic of gun violence claiming thousands of lives in US every year ISTANBUL (AA) – A weekend shooting that left three people dead in Jacksonville, Florida has once again cast a spotlight on the disturbing fact that neo-Nazism and white supremacist trends are on a steep rise […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Ground penetrating radar has unearthed 79 potential children’s graves and those that may be of 14 infants at the former Beauval Indian Residential School in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, English River First Nation said Tuesday. “This is not a final number. It breaks my heart that there are likely mor...
TAHHAHASSEE, Florida – A 21-year-old white gunman named Ryan Christopher Palmeter killed three Blacks in a racially motivated attack at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooting occurred on Saturday. The gunman had legally purchased a handgun in April and an AR -15 rifle in June. The victims of the attack were 52-year...
Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington to commemorate event WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are joining thousands of others to mark the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s anti-racism march on Monday. They are meeting with organizers of the 1963 gathering to mark the annivers...
Dalits, or Black untouchables of India, are at the bottom of the caste hierarchy of India’s social system NEW DELHI, India – A Dalit teenager was allegedly lynched and killed by an upper caste Hindu mob in India. Reports said that his sister was also attacked, and the mother was stripped naked, when they tried […]
ANKARA (AA) – US supermodel Bella Hadid’s defense of Palestinian rights has brought her under fire from Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. In an interview with an Israeli channel on Wednesday, Ben-Gvir had said the safety and mobility rights of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank held more weight than those o...
SpaceX accused of discouraging asylees, refugees from applying, refusing to hire WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Justice Department said Thursday it filed a lawsuit against tech billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company on allegations of discriminatory hiring practices. “The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 202...
