Racism

Bare your skin: A fight against colourism

"Bare Your Skin," a series of events that is aimed at building social awareness of skin colour discrimination recently hosted its 5th edition on 11 February, at the EMK Center, Dhanmondi. The concept of the event was developed in conjunction with the American Center and the US Embassy as part of a larger project under the US Department of State-funded "Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor" grant.
13 March 2023, 10:19 AM

Vaughan denies racism allegation

The disciplinary hearing into allegations of racism at Yorkshire County Cricket Club is a "terrible look for the game" and is not the right process to investigate the claims, former England captain Michael Vaughan said on Friday.
4 March 2023, 03:23 AM

Unpacking the layers of internalised racism

Internalised racism: A phenomenon where someone regards their own race to be inferior compared to another race.
9 February 2023, 00:00 AM

Fans to be punished for racially abusing Vinicius

Spain's High Council for Sport (CSD) said Monday that more than 10 Real Valladolid fans who racially insulted Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior in a La Liga game last month will be punished.
31 January 2023, 05:59 AM

Vinicius Jr says La Liga doing nothing about racism

Real Madrid's Brazilian forward Vinicius Jr on Saturday accused LaLiga of continuing to do nothing about racist fans at matches, after videos on social media showed fans shouting abuse and throwing objects at him at a match a day earlier.
1 January 2023, 04:23 AM

Reverse racism isn’t real. Here’s why.

We need to distinguish between racial prejudices and structural racism.
24 September 2022, 15:30 PM

The Little Mermaid: Has Disney sanitised our expectations from fairytales?

Thanks to 2023's The Little Mermaid, Black and brown girls can finally see themselves as princesses in a film where the protagonist's skin colour is not as instrumental to the story as the princesses' heritage was in Aladdin, Mulan, and The Princess and the Frog.
14 September 2022, 13:24 PM

Matthew Salesses demystifies the craft of writing

Storytelling is a space in which, as writers and readers, we experience the ways of how we know the world and interact with it.
27 October 2021, 18:00 PM

My terrible #Blackout Tuesday experience

Turns out I gravely misread the channeling of the outrage.
5 June 2020, 18:00 PM

A story about loving, in black and white

You see, Mildred Jeter was black, while her husband, Richard Loving (yes, that is his real name) was white. In the 1950s, Virginia was one of 24 states whose anti-miscegenation laws made interracial marriage a felony. The Lovings were charged with “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth.”
23 June 2017, 18:00 PM

[WATCH] The most 'racist' ad ever?

A black man and a young Chinese woman are flirting, as he leans in for a kiss she thrusts a detergent capsule in his
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Ugly clashes at anti-Islam rallies in Australia

Ten Australians have been arrested in nationwide protests involving both anti-Islam and anti-racism groups.
23 November 2015, 04:30 AM

Apple apologises after racism outcry

Apple apologises to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident.
12 November 2015, 05:01 AM

Bill to ban Confederate flag passes

South Carolina's Senate passes a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in Columbia.
7 July 2015, 04:31 AM

Google apologises for racist blunder

Google says it is "appalled" that its new Photos app mistakenly labelled a black couple as being "gorillas".
2 July 2015, 12:41 PM

Teargas used as Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel

Police in Israel fire tear gas and stun grenades in clashes with ethnic Ethiopians protesting about what they say is police brutality and racism.
4 May 2015, 05:19 AM

Photography against communalism

The Alliance for Mitigating Racism Altogether (AMRA) is holding a weeklong photography exhibition to mark its second anniversary, and to celebrate the International Day for Elimination of Racism on March 21.
19 March 2015, 18:00 PM