A video shared on social media showed a man quoting Bible passages to a man and boy wearing skullcaps in the London Underground. A woman in a hijab intervened.
Tag: Race and Ethnicity
A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence
“The Camp of the Saints,” published in 1973, has been a must-read within white supremacist circles for decades. Stephen Miller, Marine Le Pen and Steve King have touted it in recent years.
Mustapha Matura, Caribbean Playwright in London, Dies at 79
His often satirical plays spoke for an alienated West Indian population in postwar Britain and for the people he left behind in Trinidad and Tobago.
Ethnic Rifts in Bolivia Burst Into View With Fall of Evo Morales
As the country’s first Indigenous president has tumbled from power, Indigenous Bolivians fear the loss of their hard-won political gains, and say a racial backlash has begun.
Holocaust Survivor Is Swept Up in Italy’s Storm of Vitriol
Liliana Segre, an 89-year-old honored as a senator for life, wanted a parliamentary commission to investigate racism and hate speech. She got a police escort.
‘I Will Never Be German’: Immigrants and Mixed-Race Families in Germany on the Struggle to Belong
Thirty years after Germany’s unification, nearly 500 readers shared with us what it means to be German.
Jennifer Davis, 85, Dies; Led Divestment Effort Over Apartheid
After leaving South Africa, she pressed colleges, churches, unions, philanthropies and others to unload their stock in companies profiting from a racist system.
Brownface, Blackface and About-Face. Is Trudeau Who He Says He Is?
Many Canadians saw Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s record in office as evidence in his favor, if not enough to exonerate him for recent photos and video showing him wearing dark makeup.
New Video Surfaces Showing Trudeau in Blackface, Compounding Scandal
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has cast himself as spokesman for the world’s liberals. But a series of episodes challenges that view.
Justin Trudeau Says He Is ‘Deeply Sorry’ After Brownface Photo Surfaces
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign was thrown into turmoil when a photograph surfaced of him in brownface makeup at a 2001 private school party.