Racism is often perceived as a problem confined to the U.S. The repercussions of slavery in this country have been witnessed though an evolving light, generation after generation.
I felt that being black was just my “flaw”... similar to someone being picked on because they were overweight. My school, however, did raise awareness and I finally came to realize this was actually racism as I got older.
Our current education system is broken... Under the veil of patriotism, we fail to see the violent consequences of the whitewashed dominant narrative which has embedded itself within our scholarly content and curricula.
The BLM movement has taken magnitude... we’re able to be well aware that the attacks on people, the attacks on human rights committed in one country or another are well beyond the color of one’s skin.
Without inherited wealth, access to opportunity and right to move into thriving, more stable neighborhoods, Black wealth has remained abysmally low. Renting was rarely a choice, rather the only viable solution...
I’ve always been exposed to diversity, having grown up in a multicultural home and studing at a school with International students. In France, we must first and foremost begin teaching the colonial history.
Rioters, as we are taught, are thugs, hoodlums and criminals. Never, does the mainstream glorify rioters as agents of change whose voices have been systematically removed and suppressed...
I believed Belgium wasn’t doing too bad in terms of discrimination and racism, but that was merely due to the lack of media coverage surrounding these issues, and... which type of school I went to.
In reaction to the current global pandemic, French philosopher Albert Camus' 1947 novel The Plague, timely once more, has suddenly soared to number twenty-five on the French best seller list...
With the recent populist political support in Europe, one readily associates populism as synonymous with the far-right. However, not being an ideology, it can't be linked to one side or the other...
Fact and Fiction, Caution and Fear. In times of uncertainty, the lines continue to blur each and every day; in the context of this novel coronavirus, they blur with each and every new case...
March 16th, as Mexico faced 82 confirmed and 171 suspected coronavirus cases, the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), walked into his routine morning press conference...
