Statue of General Robert E Lee comes down in former Confederate capital of Virginia
• 3 years agoThe 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
Rahuldesai • 4 years agoObama: 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
• 5 years agoTrump’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
Sammitha Sreevathsa • 5 years agoThe 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
Angshuman Choudhury • 5 years agoBy 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
• 5 years agoFacebook is officially encouraging publishers of fake news on its News platform, all in the name of diversity
Tech2 News Staff • 5 years agoHow 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
• 6 years agoKen 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
Tech2 News Staff • 6 years agoA 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
Tech2 News Staff • 6 years agoFacebook said that earlier it didn't associate white nationalism with white supremacy.