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Recent national issues between minorities and law enforcement have inspired community members to think proactively right here in Binghamton. Binghamton's Human Rights Commission proposed measures to ensure anti-racism policies within the police force to the Binghamton City Council Monday night. The goal for the commission was to address ongoing tensions between Binghamton law enforcement and ...
Racism has been under the microscope across the city after a Maclean’s Magazine article dubbed Winnipeg the most racist city in Canada. The story attracted attention from all over the country. Mayor Brian Bowman stood with a group of prominent figures from Winnipeg's indigenous community and addressed the issue of racism in Winnipeg in the days that followed.
GOVERNMENT MOOCH. LAZY INDIAN. SQUAW. Those words, and their much more powerful antidotes, will be blown up and plastered around Winnipeg's downtown next month, especially during Winnipeg Jets games, as part of a large-scale anti-racism art project that comes on the heels of a Maclean's
Henry Winter: How can we moralise about racism in Russia and sanctimoniously take the moral high ground when this vile video is watched around the world?
Fifty years after African American demonstrators were brutally attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by law enforcement officers in Selma, Alabama, America is still grappling with race-based police violence. This week, the Department of Justice released a “searing” report detailing unconstitutional tactics and rampant racism by the Ferguson Police Department. In a press conference announcing the ...
The decision by the mayor of Paris’s 20th arrondissement to withdraw from an event with a well-known feminist and anti-racist campaigner has sparked questions of how racism and Islamophobia are discussed in France after the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Artur Grigoryants, head of the Russian Football Union's disciplinary committee, was commenting on cases in which his commission had issued multi-game bans to black players who made rude gestures to fans following racist abuse. Russia, the 2018 World Cup host, has only "rare cases of racism" at stadiums, Grigoryants added.
Russia's top official in charge of adjudicating football racism cases has suggested that black players should not be considered real victims of racial abuse if they react with an ''unpleasant gesture.''
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top official in charge of adjudicating football racism cases has suggested that black players should not be considered real victims of racial abuse if they react with an "unpleasant gesture."
OUTRAGED residents accused of making "racist" comments and being compared with Nazi Germany by Coventry Labour councillors have lodged formal complaints to the council and Labour Party.