Tag: Racism
the Central Bank of the Netherlands makes its mea culpa
After Britain’s big business, the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) recognizes the important role its early leaders played in slavery, as an independent investigation shows. It is one of the consequences…
Spotify Quietly Pulls About 70 Episodes of Joe Rogan’s Podcast Over Racism
Podcaster Joe Rogan is in turmoil again. He is accused of having made racist remarks in some of his shows, regularly using the word nigger and comparing a movie theater…
“Schwaarze Mann”, the story of Luxembourg’s first black citizen
Jacques Leurs was born in 1910 in the Congo, the son of a Luxembourg settler and a Congolese woman. Abandoned in Luxembourg by his parents who remained in the Belgian…
Racism: in sport, time for awareness?
It’s a reference game. Not sportingly, but in terms of the fight against racism. Tuesday evening, Paris-Saint-Germain received the Istanbul club Basaksehir at the Parc des Princes, as part of…
Raoul Peck: “Racial hierarchy is the root of all genocides”
If it is true that it is always the victors who write history, that of the Western world is woven of things left unsaid, gray areas and lies. And in…
Memory Day, Mattarella: “Preventing and fighting every germ of racism”
(Finance) – “If understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary, because what happened can return, consciences can be seduced and obscured again: ours too”. These are the words of Primo Levi,…
positive discrimination at university again in question
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two affirmative action cases at two of the country’s oldest and most prestigious universities. Once again, it therefore plans to reconsider its case…
three police officers tried for their passivity in the murder of George Floyd
A white policeman has already been sentenced to 22 years in prison for asphyxiating African-American George Floyd. It is now the turn of three of his colleagues to be tried…
Sentenced for incitement to hatred, Éric Zemmour announces appeal
Presidential candidate Éric Zemmour was sentenced on Monday to a fine of 10,000 euros for incitement to hatred after remarks on unaccompanied minors in 2020. He announced that he would…
“Stay Up” by Michel Zecler
In November 2020, the Loopsider site published a video of unbearable violence: that of a man being beaten up by police in his music studio in Paris. The victim, Michel…