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Alleged racial abuse from Super Rugby crowd overshadows upcoming Culture Round
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Wellington Hurricanes loose forward Du’Plessis Kirifi complained of alleged racial abuse from the crowd at Sydney’s Leichhardt Oval during Saturday’s Super Rugby clash against the New South Wales Waratahs. The 25-year...
The Church of England promised to tackle racial injustice. Why is it defending a slave trader’s memory?
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I believe we are, in Britain, on a continual walk towards a fairer society. Each new generation questions where fairness lies for them. The resulting conversations can be uncomfortable. Sometimes progress stalls. Howe...
Two more NFL coaches join Brian Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit
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Two more coaches have joined Brian Flores’s lawsuit against the NFL, which alleges the league “is racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation”. The updated lawsuit adds coaches Steve Wilks and Ray Horton...
Can magic mushrooms be used to treat racial trauma?
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The images were massive, mystical and only appeared two hours after Evan had ingested 1.5 grams of magic mushrooms. With his body splayed like a starfish on the hard-packed dirt in his Oakland backyard, he gazed up at...
Adwoa Aboah on acting, recovery and her racial awakening: ‘I am a Black woman. I have a lot to say’
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N paar weke gelede, Adwoa Aboah experienced what she describes as “a sombre moment”. “I was at my mum and dad’s, clearing out my childhood room," sy sê, her voice a little shaky. “I was going through all these old Vog...
‘The whole US is southern!’ How our troubled racial history went national
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In 1974, the great southern journalist John Egerton wrote a prescient book entitled The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America. In a series of connected but self-contained essays, he made the point t...
Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers driven by ‘pent-up racial anger’, prosecutor says
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Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery on a residential street acted out of “pent-up racial anger” and should be convicted of hate crimes, a federal prosecutor told a jury on Monday. Travis McMichael, die...
Republicans who opposed racial justice protests hope truckers ‘clog up’ US cities
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In the wake of racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd, a wave of Republican lawmakers supported legislation to punish protesters who blocked roads. Now some of those same Republicans are supporti...
Texts show Ahmaud Arbery murderers repeatedly using racial slurs, FBI analyst tells court
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Two of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs in text messages and social media posts, including some violent comments by Arbery’s shooter about Black people, an FBI witn...
Vertel ons: have you experienced racial health inequality in England?
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“Widespread” inequality across healthcare sectors is harming the health of millions of black, Asian and ethnic minority patients, a study has found. The health of minority ethnic patients in England has been negativel...
Radical action needed to tackle racial health inequality in NHS, says damning report
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Radical action is needed urgently to tackle “overwhelming” minority ethnic health inequalities in the NHS, leading experts have said, after a damning study found the “vast” and “widespread” inequity in every aspect of...
Ex-president sues Human Rights Campaign, alleging racial discrimination
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The former president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the US, filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the organization of racial discrimination in his firing last year, the Washington Pos...
Joe Biden’s first year: Covid, klimaat, the economy, racial justice and democracy
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One year ago on Thursday, Joe Biden took the oath of office as the 46th president at the US Capitol in an inauguration ceremony devoid of the usual crowds due to pandemic restrictions. Biden identified four crises fa...
What is racial invisibility, and how do white people benefit from it?
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“Where are you from?” There are few other questions in Australia that help shed a light on the overlapping and contradictory sense of sovereignty and belonging between Indigenous people, white people, and non-Indigeno...
Seattle police faked radio chatter about Proud Boys during 2020 racial justice protests – watchdog
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Seattle police exchanged detailed fake radio transmissions about a nonexistent group of menacing right-wing extremists at a crucial moment during the 2020 racial justice protests, an investigation by the city’s police...
Airbnb blocks Oregon hosts from seeing guests’ names in push against racial bias
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Airbnb rental hosts in the state of Oregon will no longer be able to see guests’ names before approving their bookings, according to a new plan announced by the company. The policy update is specific to Oregon, for no...