By Jake Offenhartz | Associated Press NEW YORK — A Venezuelan man who became the subject of national attention for allegedly kicking a police officer in Times Square, then flipping off news cameras on his way out of court, was cleared of wrongdoing on Friday after prosecutors concluded he played no role in the attack. … Read more
Nine former employees of a Michigan trucking company claim they were forced to use minority-only bathrooms even as they were subjected to racist taunts and harassment — including finding the letters “KKK” scrawled on a door and slurs such as the N-word, “beaners,” and “porch monkeys,” according to a federal lawsuit. Workers at the Lake … Read more
Galloway ran his campaign from a Suzuki car dealership, which is both darkly funny, and a metaphor for the way in which democracy can feel like another glib consumer choice. Do you want a car and a dream? Or just a car? I stood outside the dealership, and looked at the tiny pictures of Galloway … Read more
It was recently announced that casual racism allegations will be investigated as disciplinary breaches in the police force. But are guidelines always so clear cut? Where are the grey areas and how can organisations deal with it? Dr Mathew Mathews, head of the Institute of Policy Studies Social Lab, Aamir Bana, an undergraduate at Yale-NUS … Read more
This week, the Tourism Development Authority in Sri Lanka has ordered all Ukrainian and Russian tourists to leave the South Asian nation by the 7 March. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, more than six million Ukrainian civilians have fled the war-torn country. An estimated one million Russian nationals have … Read more
Scandal-plagued Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas isn’t doing himself any favors. Starting next term, one of his four new law clerks will be Crystal Clanton, a recently-minted law school graduate who was pushed out of a conservative youth organization in 2017 after a reporter uncovered virulently racist texts she sent to another employee. The Antonin … Read more
The caller came on the line during public comment at last week’s Lakewood City Council meeting and immediately launched into a hateful, antisemitic tirade that made claims about Jews, repeating multiple oft-recited tropes. From the audience in the council chambers, someone shouted: “Are you going to allow this?” Lakewood’s new mayor, Wendi Strom, took to … Read more
After attending school in Finland and later the U.S., Belgium and the U.K., Stubb entered politics in 2004 as a member of the European Parliament. He hit the Finnish big time in 2008 when — to his own surprise — he was named foreign minister. Praised by allies for his high-energy approach to politics, he was … Read more
A deputy mayor in the French capital has accused Paris Saint-Germain boss Nasser al-Khelaifi of defamation after the Qatari football tycoon suggested the city’s refusal to sell PSG a football stadium was rooted in racism. Al-Khelaifi wants to buy the Parc des Princes stadium, which the Qatari-owned French football club is currently renting from the … Read more
Several state lawmakers want to zero in on deep-rooted disparities that are holding back Black Coloradans economically, from low homeownership to disproportionately high incarceration rates, and expand the search for solutions. That’s the aim of legislation unveiled Wednesday that would charge History Colorado, the state’s historical society, with undertaking a comprehensive study into the reverberations … Read more
