Biden slams Trump for attacks on Haitian Americans: ‘This has to stop’ | US Election 2024 News

Biden slams Trump for attacks on Haitian Americans: ‘This has to stop’ | US Election 2024 News

President Joe Biden has denounced election-season attacks on the Haitian American community in the United States, calling out Republican leaders for fear-mongering. Speaking on Friday at a White House brunch billed as a “celebration of Black excellence”, Biden warned that Haitian Americans were a “community that’s under attack in our…

US city receives bomb threat after Trump spread false anti-immigrant claims | Migration News

US city receives bomb threat after Trump spread false anti-immigrant claims | Migration News

Racist rumours continue to spread, with members of local Haitian community expressing concern for their safety. Municipal officials in the city of Springfield, Ohio, have announced that the town’s city hall was evacuated due to a bomb threat, as conservative lawmakers in the United States continue to spread false claims…

US authorities charge two men for encouraging racist attacks on Telegram | Crime News

US authorities charge two men for encouraging racist attacks on Telegram | Crime News

The US Justice Department says the suspects led a ‘transnational terrorist group’ to solicit hate crimes. Two people, who prosecutors say were motivated by white supremacist ideology, used the social media messaging app Telegram to encourage acts of violence against minorities, government officials and critical infrastructure in the United States,…

UK man sentenced to nine years for arson after far-right riots | Racism News

UK man sentenced to nine years for arson after far-right riots | Racism News

Judge says that like the other outbreaks of violence in England in early August, the case was ‘suffused with racism.’ A British man who helped fuel a fire outside a hotel housing more than 200 asylum seekers has been sentenced to nine years in prison, the longest punishment handed down…

Matt Walsh convinces white women to toast ‘being racist’ in new doc
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Matt Walsh convinces white women to toast ‘being racist’ in new doc

A group of mostly liberal white women were quick to raise their glass in a toast to “being racist” when cajoled into doing so by an undercover man-bun-wearing conservative podcaster Matt Walsh. Walsh crashed a progressive supper club Race2Dinner commiseration session last year for his upcoming documentary “Am I Racist.” Those dinners,…

‘Lady in the Lake’ Ending Explained: Who Killed Cleo Johnson?
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‘Lady in the Lake’ Ending Explained: Who Killed Cleo Johnson?

Lady in the Lake is the story of one woman’s quest to solve two murders — and another woman’s journey to becoming one of the victims. It’s also the story of the different kinds of external prejudice and internal strife experienced by two minority communities in Baltimore, Black people and…

Ex-University of Kentucky student in horrifying caught-on-camera racist attack pleads guilty
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Ex-University of Kentucky student in horrifying caught-on-camera racist attack pleads guilty

The ex-University of Kentucky student caught on viral video attacking a black student while firing off an arsenal of racist slurs — including the N-word more than 200 times — has pleaded guilty to assault charges, according to a report. Sophia Rosing, 23, pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault,…

Self-defence classes empower women amid UK’s far-right violence | Islamophobia

Self-defence classes empower women amid UK’s far-right violence | Islamophobia

At a London sports ground, Maya Hassan looks on with pride as about 30 women, nearly all Muslims and from ethnic minorities, join a self-defence class that she organised in response to a wave of riots that saw violent, racist attacks on Muslims and ethnic minorities. The 28-year-old martial arts…

America’s promises of racial justice remain unfulfilled and untrustworthy | Racism

America’s promises of racial justice remain unfulfilled and untrustworthy | Racism

It appears that the corner the United States supposedly turned in 2020 in recognising and addressing its systemic racism was just another dead end – an illusion that provided the nation with a brief feel-good moment and nothing more. For all the promises to tackle discrimination in education, employment, housing…