Racism
“That was my first taste of seeing what happens to Black men every day,” Teigen told Marie Claire.
Jacob Blake has publicly spoken for the first time since being hospitalised after being shot seven times in the back by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
As the Black Lives Matter movement demands change, British south Asians have been calling for their own friends and families to address Afriphobia, too.
"Mistrust of government and authorities may result in active resistance to risk communication," official scientific advice states.
A professor in America has confessed to pretending to be Black. Jessica A Krug — whose areas of expertise include “African American history” and “imperialism and colonialism” — came clean in a self-published essay titled “The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies” on Medium published Thursday. In the confessional piece, Krug said that she has deceived friends and colleagues by falsely claiming several identities like “North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness” for “the better part of my adult life.”
William Barr dismissed the idea of systemic racism in the justice system and claimed Jacob Blake was armed when police shot him.
Unless drastic, radical, and transformative change is brought in, violence will spike, Emmanuel Onapa and Athian Akec write.
Prioritising Black joy and celebrating the resilient spirit of our ancestors is one of the most radical things we can do, Maya Elese writes.
Corporation banned staff from openly supporting Black Lives Matter, but spent days refusing to apologise for use of the N-word on air.
Bectu has responded to HuffPost UK's investigation into allegations against the BBC, and also announced work on an independent TV racism reporting body.