White Supremacy

Statue of General Robert E Lee comes down in former Confederate capital of Virginia

The removal marked a major victory for civil rights activists, whose previous calls to dismantle the statues had been steadfastly rebuked by city and state officials alike

HBO docuseries on Barack Obama is an assiduously constructed study on former US president's clash of identities

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union has no qualms scrutinizing former US president's cultural authenticity as a Black leader, his political idealism, and his defiant diplomacy in the face of racial inequity.

Donald Trump's defence of Confederate flag adds to playbook of stoking White fear, resentment

Trump’s inflammatory behaviour shows how out of step he is with shifting national sentiment on racial justice, as big corporations, sports leagues and cultural institutions express greater solidarity with Black Americans protesting systemic racism

A robust caste discourse in Indian diaspora's classical dance practices is vital — and overdue

The Black Lives Matter movement must spark a reckoning within the diaspora Indian classical dance world with its own race and caste issues

George Floyd protests in US: With Donald Trump in the White House, the fight for racial justice gets nastier

By constantly threatening to deploy federal troops through executive fiat and encouraging states to use force against protesters, US president Donald Trump is openly flirting with militaristic authoritarianism while testing the limits of the law

The malign influence of Jean Raspail's Camp of the Saints, and how it became a favourite of white supremacists

Facebook is officially encouraging publishers of fake news on its News platform, all in the name of diversity

How will Zuckerberg reconcile the ideals of factual, high-quality news with neo-Nazi ideology?

US official Ken Cuccinelli claims Statue of Liberty poem welcoming immigrants applies only to Europeans

Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming 'huddled masses' of immigrants to American shores, was referring to receive migrants 'who can stand on their own two feet'

Twitter is researching if white supremacists should be banned from its platform

A lot of the researchers who the site spoke to have said that Twitter's actions are "too little, too late."

Facebook to now ban white nationalism, white separatism on its platform

Facebook said that earlier it didn't associate white nationalism with white supremacy.